From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/17/26 18:07, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:28:27 -0000 (UTC), Don wrote:   
   >   
   >> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> He was shown the instruments of torture. If that’s not asking him   
   >>> to make a choice (in a not-so-subtle way, at that), I don’t know   
   >>> what is.   
   >>   
   >> Careful there, lest you look like a Voltaire thumping scientistic   
   >> disciple who buys this bush-league bullscat ...   
   >   
   > Yes, the Christian revisionism is alive and well, and still trying to   
   > deny that they ever tried to muzzle Galileo. They did.   
      
   	The RC Church is made of of Human beings.  Human beings make mistakes.   
   They thought they were trying to save Galileo from serious error and   
   they were   
   wrong and have now admitted it.   
      
   	Let us with the magnanimity of several centuries forget about the RCC's   
   errors. Then deal with the errors of today as we are being pushed in the   
   USA toward a strange idea that Christianity is the American religion instead   
   of the religion of lots of Americans.  White Christian Dominion over the   
   secular   
   laws of the Constitution must never be allowed.  Baptists in the 18th   
   Century   
   implored Mr.Jefferson to separate Church and State as  they were being taxed   
   to pay for the Anglican churches which the British Crown had imposed.   
      
   	I understand that several European nations still apply taxes to the   
   maintenance of state sponsored churches.   
   	Why unless of course they are historical monuments?   
   	   
   bliss - The truth is seldom revealed except in dramatic murder mysteries.   
      
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