What is blasphemous about Sagan?
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Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 11 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
The Catholic church doesn’t like it when you look up and think about what you see
niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 months ago
DIDN’T like it. Then they learned their lesson to not interfere with astronomers, to the point that it was an ordained Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître, who delved into the math of Relativity and came up with the concept of “the primordial atom”, later popularly coined as The Big Bang, back in the 1920s. Which put Lemaître at odds with Einstein, who insisted on an eternal, “Steady State Universe”.
In fact, I remember reading that the Vatican itself proudly owned this fact to the point that they financed, built and still run an observatory in Arizona, doing authentic cosmological research.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Brilliant answer. There was an excellent album touching on this by The Ocean (bandcamp link)
essell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rational thought?
dumbass@leminal.space 11 months ago
What is blasphemous about Sagan?
*Gestures broadly at his entire career*
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
To Christians? Everything.
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never seen a meme with Kerry King before. 🤘
Bourff@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not sure of that, but first time I see him without glasses.
dumbass@leminal.space 11 months ago
It’s missing an erratic jumble of an epic solo tho, that’s how you know its a true Kerry King meme!
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 11 months ago
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Hail?
XTL@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
When sleet just doesn’t cut it anymore.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you’ll find most satanists like Carl Sagan just as much or even more than Satan.
essell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Church of Satan ones or Satanic Temple ones?
Very different answers there.
Even more variety when you get to the Luciferians.
credo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think we just call them furries.