New & Noteworthy - October 2025
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
Nicolaus COPERNICUS [1473—1543]
Copernicus wrote that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe.
Giardano BRUNO [1548—1600]
Bruno wrote about an infinite universe. He was burned alive.
GALILEO [1564—1642]
“Martyr for freedom of thought”
Galileo was put under house arrest in 1632 for defending the heliocentric model of the universe.
Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
Their epic contest of ideas shook the 17th century—and continues today.
VERITAS ODIUM PARIT
BLAISE PASCAL [1623—1662]
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
The 19th century English activist and parliamentarian Charles Bradlaugh wrote: “Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.”
In the US it is legally OK to say offensive things about a religion and thus provoke hurt or anger. If some want it “criminalized”, then we are no longer supporters of free speech.
BARUCH SPINOZA [1632—1677]
THE BIBLE IS A HUMAN INVENTION
HANS KUENG [1928—2021]
Swiss Roman Catholic theologian; consultant to the Second Vatican Council 1962/1965; championing reform and ecunism. “There will be no peace among nations without peace among religions and there will be no peace among religions without dialogue among religions.”
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
The truths of Christianity compared to:
Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Primitive religion
[The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago]
Word of God’s claim to authority
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword [Matt. 10:34]—For I have come to turn a man against his father [10:35], a daughter against her mother, ETC.”
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
[written on an electric typewriter !]
STAY TUNED
EINSTEIN:
I fear the day when technology will surpass our human interaction: The world will have a generation of fools.
MARY McLEOD BETHUNE [1875-1955]
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
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