Some Things They Never Taught Us In School
(1)?????????????? THE POPE & GALILEO:
The Pope did not look into the telescope because he did not want to know the truth
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(2)???????????? LIFE & DEATH:
??Learn to Look beyond our fear and embrace our inevitable return to the unknown
THE POPE & GALILEO
ASKED by Galileo to look through his telescope, a representative of the pope answered: "I refuse to look at something which my religion tells me cannot exist."
"The pope refusing to look though Galileo’s telescope at the moons of Jupiter is an icon of humanism: science v religion (or ‘blind’ faith). The pope declined to view evidence that not everything in the universe revolves around the earth. Yet, from a Biblically based Hebraic perspective the moral of the story is turned upside down or, rather, put right-side up."
"Why wouldn’t the pope look? Galileo developed the ideas of Copernicus about the solar system, with the cautious backing of cardinal Barberini. But, Galileo fell afoul of Vatican politics and lost Barberini as an ally after he became pope Urban VIII. This is the pope who declined to look through the telescope and forced Galileo to recant his claims."
LIFE & DEATH
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The Magical Thinking of the Magic Jesus people. (Paraphrased from Chris Hedges)
“The Roman state looked at Jesus the same way the American state looked at Malcolm X or Martin Luther King.”
“And, as is true throughout history, prophets are often killed.”?
“The Bible has been used by systems of power to perpetuate all sorts of injustices and persecution since the Christian Church was institutionalized in the third century by Constantine, who was a brutal dictator,” says Hedges. “[Once power] essentially captivated this ideology, it was [and] has been used throughout history to carry out all sorts of what I would call heretical [acts]. [And] I’d call the Christian right heretics; they’ve acculturated the worst aspects of American capitalism and imperialism and white supremacy with the Christian religion.
“Jesus was a person of color; the Romans were white. The Romans nailed Jesus and other people of color to crosses the same way we finish them off on death row, or gun them down in the streets by militarized police. And the Romans didn’t care about Jesus’ religious importance; they killed him as an insurrectionist, as a revolutionary, because they feared the radicalism of the Christian gospel, which defied so much of Roman culture.?