Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
//No, I'm not going to embark on another lecture about Christians who
waste precious time scanning the skies for their Lord to return. I just
thought I'd point out something funny.
Remember
Galileo, the astronomer who insisted that the earth rotated around the
sun, rather than the sun around the earth? That didn't go over too well
with the Church, who preferred to believe that the earth is the center
of the universe. Galileo and his misinformed followers, the Church
insisted, spent altogether too much time themselves staring up into heaven.
So,
today's verse was quoted by a Dominican friar to discourage the use of
Galileo's telescope. Note the clever play on Galilee and Galileo.
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