Friday, November 21, 2008

Voted for Obama? This Guy says "Repent!"

According to a report on CNN, Father Newman, a Catholic priest is telling his parishioners that because of Barack Obama's stance on Abortion, they should repent if they voted for him. Given that priest is white, I immediately thought that it was because Obama is black, but upon watching the report, I think that it is only because of Obama's view on abortion that Newman is calling for repentance. I totally disagree with Obama's views on abortion. I believe abortion is equivalent to murdering a human being because life begins at the millisecond of conception. However, I don't think it was wrong to vote for Obama because it did not matter who was going to be President, Obama or McCain, abortions are not going to abolished. Too many Americans don't see that abortion is murder. If we want to change that, we have to change people's minds and hearts to follow God, not elect John McCain as President.

Copernicus - found!


For nearly 500 years, no one has known for sure where Copernicus was buried. Copernicus is credited as the first European to realize that the earth revolved around the sun, not the other way around. According to an article I just read, a skeleton was found in a church in 2005. They were able to confirm it to be Copernicus two different ways. Forensic reconstructions match portraits of Copernicus painted while he was living. Second, DNA from hairs in a book that had been owned by him, match the DNA of the skeleton. The age of the person who died even matches the age we know Copernicus was when he died: 70. The one thing about the article I hated is that it says:

His ideas challenged the Bible, the church and past theories, and they had important consequences for future thinkers, including Galileo, Descartes and Newton.


In no way did Copernicus and Galileo heliocentric hypothesis, now a proven fact, challenge the Bible. It does challenge the church. No where does the Bible teach that sun revolves around the earth or that it is flat. That was a doctrine that the Catholic church taught as dogma for centuries and killed some people who challenged those ideas as heretics. The church is to blame for that, not the Bible.