Scientists protest Pope’s visit; Pope cancels visit; Scientists criticize the cancellation
I suppose opposing the Pope no matter what is a kind of consistency, a foolish consistency, hobgoblin of little minds:
ROME (AFP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday cancelled a speech at Rome’s La Sapienza university in the face of protests led by scientists opposed to a high-profile visit by the head of the Catholic Church to a secular setting.
You know what?
I completely agree. The judgment against Galileo WAS rational and just. Execution of Bruno was completely justified. It is only a shame that Copernicus was too cowardly to publish his heresy while alive so they could have punished him for the blasphemy.
Just how ironic is it that these scientists, the so-called skeptics and champions of open discourse and intellectual freedom, are protesting the pope based on what he said, not what he did?
And also,
Cini said of Benedict on Thursday: “By cancelling, he is playing the victim, which is very intelligent. It will be a pretext for accusing us of refusing dialogue.”
Well, MISTER Cini, I do not know of your particular accomplishments in physics. But let me say that you are a disgrace to the profession of physicists and the integrity of academic researchers. If your protest was not to get the pope to cancel the visit, then what the hell was it for? Anti-religious persecution?