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Jul 31st, 2009, 03:06 PM
#11
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Re: [Serious]Why are you not a believer of the existence of God
 Originally Posted by Atheist
What about the times when the church literally murdered (and/or banished them) scientists for discovering things that were against what the church was preaching?
Galileo was persecuted by the Catholic Church for what he taught.
From wikipedia article :
On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture.[108][109] In March 2008 the Vatican proposed to complete its rehabilitation of Galileo by erecting a statue of him inside the Vatican walls.[110] In December of the same year, during events to mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo's earliest telescopic observations, Pope Benedict XVI praised his contributions to astronomy.
wikipedia article on Galileo Galilei
The Catholic Church in a sense apologized for how it treated Galileo. We all make mistakes so I think the churches have a right to make mistakes too.
 Make as many mistakes as you can as quickly as you can. We want to make sure that we make a great enough number of mistakes in a given amount of time so that we can be successful. 
"Persistence is the magic of success." Paramahansa Yogananda
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