Andreas Vesalius died at age 49 in Zakinthos, Greece. He had reached Jerusalem, but never made it back home. You could say Vesalius died for the church that persecuted him.
Monthly Archive: December 2010
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Dec 30
December 30: The Vatican Recognizes Israel
It came about 50 years too late for the Holocaust. So… if God is right today, and Jews are not “reviled of God,” was he wrong in the Dark Age, when faith was stronger?
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Dec 29
December 29: The Murder of Thomas Becket
Had Becket but served his king with half the zeal that he served his God, he would not have been left naked to his enemies.
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Dec 28
December 28: Apostates at Westminster Abbey
There is a curious collection of the impious residing eternally in and around Westminster: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, John Dryden – and the admittedly agnostic Charles Darwin!
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Dec 27
December 27: Louis Pasteur
Pasteur believed “the idea of God is a form of the idea of the Infinite, whether it is called Brahma, Allah, Jehovah, or Jesus.” This is hardly orthodox Christianity.
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Dec 26
December 26: Exorcism
The behaviors of the possessed resemble very closely the behaviors of those with electrochemical, neurochemical or other physical or emotional disorders.
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Dec 25
December 25: Christmas Day
Mithra — like Tammuz, Adonis, Apollo and Horus — was a sun-god. So you see, the “reason for the season” is not the son of any god, but the sun up in the sky!
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Dec 25
December 25: Clara Barton
The Dictionary of American Biography admits of Barton that “she … was never a Church member.”
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Dec 25
December 25: Quentin Crisp
Crisp once quipped, “a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’”
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Dec 24
December 24: Matthew Arnold and his “Sea of Faith”
Arnold was a leading literary critic and wrote many essays, which displayed a seriously Rationalist streak. He denied belief in immortality and a personal God.
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