tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657029.post6761384856853005757..comments2023-03-23T09:56:03.136-04:00Comments on Amazed at ignorance: Dan Brown is an idiotJohn D. Ayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662722377040114818noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657029.post-77981974686776217272015-03-10T12:56:06.961-04:002015-03-10T12:56:06.961-04:00Thank you, thank you for being one of the few who ...Thank you, thank you for being one of the few who managed to educated themselves and does not accept stupidity just because it came from a bestseller. Aurora Boreliashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688824244543746639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657029.post-61865017679832392452014-08-03T20:45:20.914-04:002014-08-03T20:45:20.914-04:00Ptolomey lived long after Aristotle, he modified t...Ptolomey lived long after Aristotle, he modified the Aristotelian model with all kinds of crazy orbits to explain retrograde.<br /><br />Aristarchus is the original developer of the heliocentric universe theory and the person who lost the academic debate with Aristotle. After Aristarchus lost the geocentric theory was taught by academia, primarily priests for about 1800 years.John D. Ayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08662722377040114818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657029.post-80298924894076988912014-07-30T15:56:18.918-04:002014-07-30T15:56:18.918-04:00I believe it was Ptolemy in Egypt who gave us the ...I believe it was Ptolemy in Egypt who gave us the geocentric model of the solar system.<br /><br />While I am as Protestant as they come, I join with you in utter dismay that people like Dan Brown and the _Holy Blood, Holy Grail_ authors on whom he based his novel are taken seriously.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657029.post-28366240390275637542014-03-26T10:37:46.623-04:002014-03-26T10:37:46.623-04:00I agree, I can be overly harsh at times.
Imagine ...I agree, I can be overly harsh at times.<br /><br />Imagine someone stupid enough to believe that the Jewish religious leadership would bury a pagan temple prostitute who converted to a heretical and blasphemous cult under the most sacred location in all of Judaism. The incredibly idiocy of this theory and its popular adoption by the uneducated pseudo intellectual population has only been exceeded by the citizenry of Germany prior to and during WW2.John D. Ayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08662722377040114818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657029.post-59411060179078209502014-03-26T10:07:04.428-04:002014-03-26T10:07:04.428-04:00I enjoyed this post though your language is a litt...I enjoyed this post though your language is a little rough. The worrisome thing about Dan Brown is that people take fiction for fact without sufficient education into history and the difference between assertion and support for same. thanks, johnGod help us, todayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14234460412561427046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657029.post-43647060897229932322012-01-10T14:47:57.460-05:002012-01-10T14:47:57.460-05:00Everything I wrote was true and no, the Catholic C...Everything I wrote was true and no, the Catholic Church did not hold back education or scientific discovery. The Church was the only educational institution because the feudal monarchies of Europe didn't invest in building public schools. Until the invention of the printing press it wasn't economically feasible to produce the materials required to educate large number of people.<br /><br />I suppose you mean to infer that everywhere but Europe was uncivilized. Pretty arrogant, but, considering your post probably the least arrogant inference you made.<br /><br />I could explain further, but, I find that morons rarely change their opinions when confronted by facts.<br /><br />I think I will continue to study world history through the writings of those cultures immersed in the "darkness of savagery" instead of the egotistical crap written by a bunch of arrogant Europeans scapegoating their own savagery.<br /><br />Thank you for your opinion though, it was quite enlightening to discover that Europe was the only "civilized light" in a world of "savage darkness".John D. Ayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08662722377040114818noreply@blogger.com