The Church admitted it was wrong in this matter 365 years later, in 1998. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them to not see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover. Jr. American Catholics of all political persuasions do not want their bishops to appear even remotely to be telling them how to vote.
Many religious beliefs decline as education level rises.
The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg. Figurehead of the Indian Independence Movement Watches may disagree, but let us not. The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much. I am a super-atheist.