07-03-2015, 10:06 AM
(07-01-2015, 11:58 AM)Benton Wrote:
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or just grossly incorrect.
The first persons to say the world is round and the earth revolves around the sun were condemned as heretics by the pope. The pope, for those who don't know, is the leader of the oldest Christian Church on the planet. Some of those condemned as heretics were not only condemned, but actually killed. And those who didn't want to be killed and/or damned to hell continued to repeat the belief that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth. That would be the vast majority of Christians world wide, for centuries. So, it is neither sarcasm nor is it incorrect.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
