1) Juicy find this morning: Saruman sings heavy metal. #ineedgimmegimme
2) From a day or two ago I bookmarked this article on scientist priests throughout history. Besides listing Jesuits like Lemaitre, the inventor of the Big Bang Theory, the post throws out this interesting quote from Consolmagno: “…’religious needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism.’” Rational Catholics don’t get a lot of recognition in today’s society.
Mostly, though, I grabbed this piece because of its reference to Grimaldi who worked with diffraction of light. You may remember that a key aspect of Tribe of Liars (our family’s IP in development) is the use of lenses, microscopes and telescopes. I don’t know if I realized that a Catholic priest was the historical basis for aspects of our invented IP religion.
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Wow, never knew about Christopher Lee’s metal career. That’s . . . that’s like so bizarre. It’s cool. But so bizarre.
Sounds a lot like Blind Guardian, too, which is great.
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Yes! Lee’s Charlemagne albums fit right in along with my love of Shatners stuff.
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Many who oppose Catholic teaching still hold up Galileo as evidence of the church being anti science, I love the way this author just says that the churches involvement can be explained but not excused, in other words … Oops, just humans doing our best and screwing up along the way.