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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    11/12/09

    In reply to Vatican Holds Scientific Conference To Ponder The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life
    I think we would all do well to remember that without the Catholic church, much of the world's history and important cultural advancements would have been lost in the Dark Ages.

    Without abbeys full of monks who spent years painstakingly reproducing not just religous texts but also the writings of many ancient philosophers and historians, much of that knowledge would have been lost forever.

    Sure the church caused much of the strife during those times, but there was also no one else bothering to preserve important historical knowledge. Monarch during this time did not care about funding libraries, museums, centers for the arts and so on and so forth.

    As someone who has a rather low opinion of the Catholic church in general even I can respect their role in preserving and advancing human culture during the Middle Ages. #vatican
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    11/12/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: almost everything you've just said is stunningly wrong.
    while there were monks reproducing mostly religious texts during the so called 'dark ages' it was the Muslims who preserved and then transfered (see for eg. Reconquista) this knowledge to Europe. The libraries of the Islamic world were the ones that 'saved' the knowledge of the greeks/romans, and gave us the number 0 (from India) among countless other things. #vatican
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    11/12/09

    @goldfarb: No it's not. I'm not sure what historical references you're reading from but it sounds somewhere along the lines of something Zinn or other entirely anti-Western Civ writers would say. The truth is never so extreme as "stunningly wrong" in regards to this topic. #vatican
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    11/12/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: I'm not much of a fan of Zinn so...
    any reliable history of mathematics, optics/physics/astronomy, philosophy or the relations between Europe and the Muslim world between the 10th and 14th centuries will demonstrate what I've said above.
    To claim that the Catholic church is responsible for preventing "much of the world's history and important cultural advancements" being "lost in the Dark Ages" is patently false.
    to say that "no one else bothering to preserve important historical knowledge" is equally false - and reveals a simple ignorance of the facts. the 'dark ages' were only dark in Europe. #vatican
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    Image of Hachiken Hachiken
    11/12/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: It's not anti-Western, it's simple fact. Goldfarb is correct, the "Dark Ages" were dark in Europe, due largely to a plethora of barbaric customs, an astonishing degree of religious entitlement and a staggering lack of acceptance of demonstrable fact, driven largely by classic Christian xenophobia. Which appears to be alive and well here in the 21st century. #vatican
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/11/09

    In reply to Vatican Holds Scientific Conference To Ponder The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life

    Oh yeah, the Vatican - specially the pope - is so taking a kindler, gentler, more active role in science and technological progress these days... #vatican
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    Image of Complexified Complexified
    11/11/09

    In reply to Vatican Holds Scientific Conference To Ponder The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life

    Maybe aliens were the ones who made Mary pregnant, without the loss of virginity O.o #vatican
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/11/09

    @Complexified: You leave the Quantum Presbyterians alone. LEAVE THEM ALONE! #vatican
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    Image of Complexified Complexified
    11/11/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I thought they were Mormons :/ #vatican
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/11/09

    In reply to Vatican Holds Scientific Conference To Ponder The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life
    I don't want any reprobate aliens polluting God's chosen species with their otherworldly pagan nonsense. We must shun the tares from the stars with extreme conviction people. And you, my brothers and sisters, will help Jesus Our Lord and Savior to vanquish the foulness from the sky with all the available modern technologies God has granted us through man's intellect.

    Also, that picture is funny as hell. #vatican
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/11/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Shun the non believerssss
    Shuuunnnnnnnnnnn-ah #vatican
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    Image of SilverBlade2k SilverBlade2k
    11/11/09

    In reply to Vatican Holds Scientific Conference To Ponder The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life
    This begs the question..since humans were made in God's image (according to the Bible), then who created the aliens in their image? #vatican
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment SilverBlade2k was starred SilverBlade2k was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @SilverBlade2k: just to be the devil's advocate (ha): God made other creatures on earth which were not in God's image. Why could God not have done this elsewhere? #vatican
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    11/11/09


    @SilverBlade2k: #vatican
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/11/09


    @Kaiser-Machead: Father! #vatican
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    Image of Digo Digo
    11/11/09

    In reply to Vatican Holds Scientific Conference To Ponder The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life
    It would be amazing (and amazingly hilarious) if The Vatican were actually the first to discover intelligent extraterrestrial life. #vatican
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    Image of B-low B-low
    11/11/09

    @Digo: Funnier if the pope turned out to be an alien... #vatican
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    11/11/09

    @B-low: Maybe B16, but JP2 no way, he was too awesome. It would suck if he weren't one of us. #vatican
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    11/11/09

    @Digo: True that. Maybe the carmarlengo then- I don't even know who holds that post.
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    11/11/09

    @B-low: Me neither, I totally suck at being Catholic. It's what happens when you don't practice. #vatican
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    11/11/09

    @Digo: I'm only a good catholic when I meet a protestant. I guess that's a bit of an oxymoron... #vatican
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