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Originally Posted by willravel
You do realize that you just named two prominent scientists that were attacked by the Catholic Church, right? I mean really.
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Don't jump ahead too far, now. Galileo and Copernicus still had the faith and peered into "God's Universe." Others were merely too frightened by what they saw. Do you know many Christians who believe in the Ptolemaic system?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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