Andreas Vesalius died at age 49 in Zakinthos, Greece. He had reached Jerusalem, but never made it back home. You could say Vesalius died for the church that persecuted him.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
December 31: Andreas Vesalius
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Posted in History, Religion, Science, Theology
Posted in History, Religion, Science, Theology
December 30: The Vatican Recognizes Israel
It came about 50 years too late for the Holocaust. So… if God is right today, and Jews are not “reviled of God,” was he wrong in the Dark Age, when faith was stronger?
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Posted in History, Religion, Theology
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
December 29: The Murder of Thomas Becket
Had Becket but served his king with half the zeal that he served his God, he would not have been left naked to his enemies.
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Posted in Film, History, Religion
Posted in Film, History, Religion
December 25: Quentin Crisp
Crisp once quipped, “a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?'”
December 24: Matthew Arnold and his “Sea of Faith”
Arnold was a leading literary critic and wrote many essays, which displayed a seriously Rationalist streak. He denied belief in immortality and a personal God.
December 23: Jean-François Champollion
Like most public figures during the post-Revolutionary Royalist reaction, Champollion was compelled to keep his religious opinions discreet.
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Posted in Famous Freethinkers, History, Science
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, History, Science
December 22: What Is a Jubilee?
30,000 pilgrims arrived daily, and one of them says, “day and night two clerics stood at the altar of St. Peter with rakes and drew off the infinite sums of money.”
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Posted in History, Religion, Theology
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
December 21: Frank Zappa
“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
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