home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!wupost!gumby!yale!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!stepsun.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!efes.physik.uni-kl.de!kring
- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Subject: Re: Where has Galileo been all these years?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.181532.14634@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Sender: news@rhrk.uni-kl.de
- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
- References: <1992Nov16.202537.3955@draco.macsch.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:15:32 GMT
- Lines: 20
-
- In article <1992Nov16.202537.3955@draco.macsch.com>, jfb@draco.macsch.com (John Baskette) writes:
- >[..] I conclude that the punishment of
- >Galileo was based, not on any conflict between his view and Church
- >doctrine, but on the Pope's regrettable but unsurprising conviction
- >that anyone who publicly makes a laughing-stock of the Pope is
- >striking at the foundations of all that is good and decent and must
- >not be permitted to get away with it. Urban VIII is by no means the
- >only public figure to reason like this. I feel the urge to give
- >several more examples, but this post is already too long.
- >
- >
- > James Kiefer
-
- In Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses", there appears a man-eating monster
- that is easily recognizable as Ayatollah Ruhollah Musawi al-Chomeini...
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- ...and then the dragon ate the princess and the knight, and he lived happily
- ever after. -- Grandma Addams telling Wednesday a story (paraphrased)
-