Mine is Mickey Mouse. Originally the idea of an animated talking mouse was seen as evidence that the end of the world was here. Cartoon rodents should not talk on movie screens!
2007-10-03 05:02:07 · 15 answers · asked by Showtunes 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who was a proponent of the view of an Earth in daily motion about its axis and in yearly motion around a stationary sun. This theory profoundly altered later workers' view of the universe, but was rejected by the Catholic church.
Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime. The geocentric view had been dominant since the time of Aristotle, and the controversy engendered by Galileo's opposition to this view resulted in the Catholic Church's prohibiting the advocacy of heliocentrism as potentially factual, because that theory had no decisive proof and was contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture.[5] Galileo was eventually forced to recant his heliocentrism and spent the last years of his life under house arrest on orders of the Inquisition.
The Catholic Church only recently "pardoned" Galileo, but has yet to admit the Church was wrong in its indictment of heresy.
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2007-10-03 05:14:07 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about the evil that bicycles brought to the world in the 1800's
2007-10-03 12:20:01 · answer #2 · answered by Nobody Special 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just love that little part in the Bible where it says, "Thou shalt not kill. Period..." Just wondering when the clause that says, "except when you feel like it, or someone pisses you off, or you want to wage war on a country that didn't attack you and steal all its natural resources and kill all its people, or when you just need to blow up that abortion clinic, or you see you can really win in there is concerned..." was added. I mean, like, uh, wasn't God pretty clear with the Ten Commandments? And uh, just exactly where are there any exceptions to those rules printed? Yep. Hypocrisy on the part of 49% of an entire country just tickles my as* to death! I'm highly amused as my birth country goes to hell morally, mentally, physically, intellectually and in its infrastructure. Highly amused.
2007-10-03 12:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by calyx156 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dancing...I personally can't dance,, but the fact it was once thought the exclusive hobby of witches, I'm glad that we're all now able to dance again without being burned at the stake for it.
2007-10-03 12:10:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The idea that sex with out marriage would lead you to hell . It may but since I have already made the reservations might as well go happy .
2007-10-03 21:05:07 · answer #5 · answered by knightrunner13 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Astronomy
Heliocentric view of the Cosmos
Galileo
2007-10-03 12:11:54 · answer #6 · answered by Rusty Knight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my favorite would be the imprisonment and excommunication of Galileo for claiming the world was round. This was not officially rescinded until 1996 by the Catholic church. i think thats pretty hilarious if you ask me
2007-10-03 12:07:34 · answer #7 · answered by nacsez 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Following your own moral compass
Deuteronomy 29:19
2007-10-03 12:07:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
critical thought
I also like a heliocentric universe and evolutionary theory - however, there is one particular very backwards society which refuses to accept the facts of evolution.
2007-10-03 12:05:41 · answer #9 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Maybe Amazing Grace - the music was from a bar song
2007-10-03 12:06:33 · answer #10 · answered by SCarrolD 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋