Originally posted by ivanhoe
Halleluja, praise the Lord ....
here's your rotten church at work:
Honoring a Heretic Whom Vatican 'Regrets' Burning. Freethinkers and atheists gathered to honor Giordano Bruno in observance of the four hundredth anniversary of his burning at the stake. Bruno, a Dominican priest whose scientific investigations led him to believe that the universe was infinite and the teachings of the Church irrational, refused to recant to save his life. 'The pope has marked this Holy Year as a time for the church to apologize for past errors and excesses, from the Inquisition to the persecution of Jews. Today, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican secretary of state, said the church "regretted" that it had resorted to violence in Bruno's case, but pointed out that Bruno's writing was "incompatible" with Christian thinking, and that he therefore remains a heretic.'
they REGRET having murdered him for heresy but oh well after all he was a heretic...
some of that heretics work lay dormant for 400 hundred years until Einstein used it to explain the Special Theory of Relativity.
he was no longer a priest having been excommunicated not only but the RCC but the Calvinists and the Lutheran churches too,, even thought he was never a Calvinist.