Pope Praises Gallileo: Still Picks Cherries

Pope Benedict XVI has praised the astronomer, Galileo for his work in helping us to better understand the universe and the fact that we live in a heliocentric solar system where the Earth is a rather insignificant rock. If we didn't live here, we'd probably not be that impressed by it.

His predecessor reportedly remarked in in 1992 that the catholic church's treatment of the great man was a "tragic error."

Tragic error? There's a fucking understatement. Thanks to the Roman Catholic church's mind buggering ignorance and unwillingness to adapt, the cause of astronomical science was put back decades and perhaps more.

Benedict XVI is a modernist of sorts - he's not daft enough to come out and suggest the Earth is flat or the Earth is at the centre of the solar system (making it the Terra system) or even the universe. He's smart cookie and just expands his views a bit to fit with modern thinking.

God's still real, but now we can use Gallileo's discovery to observe God's work.

So that's OK then.

That's the problem with these assholes. They need to justify their jobs - after all they get paid for promoting the biggest bunch of bollocks in history of, well, history.

Every time we figure out how something else works (evolution was a good example) they shit themselves and have to either deny it (as the Americans are fond of) or wrap it up in a nice box of God's doing.

It's a lot harder to burn people a stakes these days - people tend to notice.

That's the great thing about the God concept. No matter what we figure out about our surroundings, one God fits all a bit like one of those Magic Gloves you get down the Sunday market.

It rains - god did it. (No guys, that's precipitation).

Precipitation? God made clouds!

Clouds - that the weather and God made the seas!

Water. No guys that's hydrogen and oxygen.

Hydrogen and Oxygen? God made them.

No they are atoms. Listen guys, Oxygen is made in stars and hydrogen when the universe was created.

AH! But God made the universe!

FAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRK!

and then there's this:

Life - god did it. (Wait no, it was evolution).

Evolution? God did it!

Abiogenesis - see, you can't explain that, so God must have done it!