tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post2943619118148748812..comments2023-05-02T23:19:12.706+10:00Comments on Armarium Magnum: Cartoons and Fables - How Cosmos Got the Story of Bruno WrongTim O'Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-71936947471332542672015-08-15T19:33:45.114+10:002015-08-15T19:33:45.114+10:00The problem is that the "Conflict Thesis"...The problem is that the "Conflict Thesis" is being pushed mostly by atheists and antitheists who were former religious fundamentalists themselves and now, as apostates, have an axe to grind. I think the CT is absurd and I have no use for books like those of White or Draper. I have encountered a number of militant atheists and antitheists who also argue vehemently that Jesus never MatthewGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15254081285980009609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-75886939141521002952015-03-02T14:38:39.296+11:002015-03-02T14:38:39.296+11:00It should hardly be surprising that Tyson pushes t...It should hardly be surprising that Tyson pushes the ‘Conflict Thesis’. In an article <a href="" rel="nofollow">Holy Wars</a> (now apparently withdrawn because the link no longer works), Tyson wrote:<br /><br />‘Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion. As was thoroughly documented in the nineteenth century tome, <i>A Jonathan Sarfati, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12530418085229071099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-18897814396361056842014-06-20T07:24:15.336+10:002014-06-20T07:24:15.336+10:00Thank you for an excellent article. I've just ...Thank you for an excellent article. I've just discovered your blog on account of having read Greenblatt's 'Swerve' and trying to find some critical responses to it - there weren't many. I'm glad to find someone from the sceptical ranks taking a sober view on these things.<br /><br />Same thing with these comically propagandist cartoons in Cosmos lately. Even a vestige of Råttanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16823416094213508858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-6705506529538003192014-05-27T14:32:18.954+10:002014-05-27T14:32:18.954+10:00Hi Tim
It looks like Carrier finally got enough p...Hi Tim<br /><br />It looks like Carrier finally got enough pennies together to get his Magnum Opus on the Christ Myth published.<br /><br />http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=264<br /><br />Do you think anyone will pay 25 pounds to read it?Duke of Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14891442161634560912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-46138191704850441882014-05-21T02:30:31.095+10:002014-05-21T02:30:31.095+10:00According to Yates, the reason Bruno rejected the ...According to Yates, the reason Bruno rejected the trinity and the like had nothing at all to do with science or reason, but because he had embraced Hermetic Mysticism.<br /><br />Likewise Rowland argues that Bruno's rejection was the influence of a pseudo-Calvinistic philosophy he had cobbled together.<br /><br />Point is, the man was no scientist (and could barely even qualify as being a Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05329211094657530099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-17405656555495995802014-04-25T22:09:14.880+10:002014-04-25T22:09:14.880+10:00I am translating this to my own lingo and place it...I am translating this to my own lingo and place it in my portuguese blogs, keeping a link to the original.<br /><br />I hope you are ok with it.Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17529021789568484898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-10858658077505812492014-04-18T18:35:45.820+10:002014-04-18T18:35:45.820+10:00Very well written. I will digress with the conclus...Very well written. I will digress with the conclusion though in that Bruno probably refused to accept the Holy trinity etc, due to the science that he thought made rational sense. Was he a scientist probably not, just as most people are not these days.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01243905647317437724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-48944595300258279022014-04-03T07:40:57.046+11:002014-04-03T07:40:57.046+11:00"The cartoon concludes with DeGrasse Tyson...<i> "The cartoon concludes with DeGrasse Tyson's caveats about Bruno being "no scientist" and his ideas being no more than a "lucky guess". Some commenters seem to think that this somehow absolves the whole sequence of its distortions and that it means the show depicts Bruno only as a martyr to free thought and a lesson on the dangers of dogmatism."</i><br /><brGaiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683100808581061355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-43981041595415031802014-04-02T10:50:47.791+11:002014-04-02T10:50:47.791+11:00I'm pleased not only that you've hopped in...I'm pleased not only that you've hopped into this conversation, but tickled by how your happening upon the Campo reads almost exactly like the Roman scenes in John Crowley's Ægypt Cycle. The tetralogy is a massive indulgence and goes nowhere, but any one volume of this Rosicrucian fiction does a far better job of "explaining Bruno's time" than some people steeped in Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15398475829747671883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-46781501241738676572014-03-29T05:17:17.839+11:002014-03-29T05:17:17.839+11:00So, did that documentary have anybody with the pro...So, did that documentary have anybody with the proper qualifications when it cameto the subjects of history it covered? Or is this another case of individuals wanting to speak out on what's outside of their expertise?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-25084794088701628032014-03-24T18:15:37.340+11:002014-03-24T18:15:37.340+11:00Thank you Tim.
It's always a pleasure to come...Thank you Tim.<br /><br />It's always a pleasure to come to your blog and read your well written and well researched articles.<br /><br />JasonDuke of Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14891442161634560912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-68039353133876097902014-03-22T07:36:03.469+11:002014-03-22T07:36:03.469+11:00Why, oh Why cannot people have real integrity when...Why, oh Why cannot people have real integrity when it comes with history, the Magistra Historia moans again and again. Thank you, my dear sir, for pointing out those things which I knew back in the 1960s and 1970s. History has been put through too much as many knaves' courtesan, to do with as they will: bent, created lies in its name, etc. to serve other masters and their agendae. Julia Erganehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613625453621934834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-26917488457863213172014-03-22T04:32:07.599+11:002014-03-22T04:32:07.599+11:00AB:
Falsely representing evil is wrong. Because it...AB:<br />Falsely representing evil is wrong. Because it is false. <br /><br />The evilness is irrelevant in the rational context.<br /><br />Thus, the evil of burning someone for kooky heresy will be wrongly represented if it is portrayed as the evil of burning someone for scientific daring.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02946245013800022572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-20071327399775035922014-03-22T04:23:34.083+11:002014-03-22T04:23:34.083+11:00As near as I can tell, the RSS feed fix worked, si...As near as I can tell, the RSS feed fix worked, since all six of your most recent posts appeared in my RSS feed.hardindrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05275899305949454964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-16932842456649339782014-03-21T05:51:21.630+11:002014-03-21T05:51:21.630+11:00PS Thanks to Tom and jsz for their suggestions re ...PS Thanks to Tom and jsz for their suggestions re my Feedburner problems. I've taken your advice and I hope my changes do the trick.Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-66636367121739291382014-03-21T05:50:22.920+11:002014-03-21T05:50:22.920+11:00AB wrote:
"The cartoon merely demonstrates t...AB wrote:<br /><br /><i>"The cartoon merely demonstrates the primacy all humans ("theist" or otherwise) have for dramatic narrative and martyrs, which will always trump facts. "</i><br /><br />Yes, it does. Though on this blog we tend to think facts trump emotion. We're odd that way.<br /><br /><i>"The historical nuances you point out are irrelevant to this Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-24219071290972543372014-03-20T13:50:15.140+11:002014-03-20T13:50:15.140+11:00The cartoon merely demonstrates the primacy all hu...The cartoon merely demonstrates the primacy all humans ("theist" or otherwise) have for dramatic narrative and martyrs, which will always trump facts. Bruno was burned for heretical ideas -- that's all people want to know about the subject, because the mere idea that someone could be torched by a religious body for any idea instantly raises a modern's blood pressure. The ABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15536547131562840293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-31786455333558961732014-03-20T07:50:06.625+11:002014-03-20T07:50:06.625+11:00No Tom, several others have pointed this out as we...No Tom, several others have pointed this out as well. I have no idea what the problem is. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Blogger widget that (supposedly) supplies the feed but that has made no difference. Searches on what the issue might be have turned up nothing.<br /><br />I'm happy to admit I have pretty much zero knowledge of how these things work, so if anyone out Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-67424529167181084512014-03-20T07:40:07.101+11:002014-03-20T07:40:07.101+11:00Hi Tim,
I've been trying to add your excellen...Hi Tim,<br /><br />I've been trying to add your excellent blog to my rss reader, but it seems your RSS feed doesn't update. The last update was a post from 2012. Is this a problem on my end only?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06820001463809982324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-23712405526616420362014-03-19T00:27:02.047+11:002014-03-19T00:27:02.047+11:00Spoton, Tim!
Since Churh leaders were sufficientl...Spoton, Tim!<br /><br />Since Churh leaders were sufficiently clearheaded that true miracles only were so if they represented a direct violation of natural law (whatever that is), it follows of course, that no improved understanding of <i>natural law</i> ever could "threaten" the "truth" of the miracles.<br /><br />With one exception of course, namely that the miracle was Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02946245013800022572noreply@blogger.com