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Don't they all believe in the same God?Then why the trouble?
I can never understand why people are willing to die for the religieon that they are born with. They could just as easily be born into a different one. Very few people seem to switch religeons. It seems a bit daft.
Tycho died on October 24, 1601, eleven days after suddenly becoming very ill during a banquet. He was ill for eleven days, and toward the end of his illness he is said to have told Kepler "Ne frustra vixisse videar!", "Let me not seem to have lived in vain”. For hundreds of years, the general belief was that he had strained his bladder. It had been said that to leave the banquet before it concluded would be the height of bad manners, and so he remained, and that his bladder, stretched to its limit, developed an infection which he later died of. This theory was supported by Kepler's first-hand account.Recent investigations have suggested that Tycho did not die from urinary problems but instead from mercury poisoning: extremely toxic levels of it have been found in his hair and hair-roots. Tycho may have poisoned himself by imbibing some medicine containing unintentional mercuric chloride impurities, or may have been poisoned. According to a 2005 book by Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder, there is substantial circumstantial evidence that Kepler murdered Brahe; they argue that Kepler had the means, motive, and opportunity, and stole Tycho's data on his death. According to the Gilders, they find it "unlikely" Tycho could have poisoned himself since he was an alchemist known to be familiar with the toxicity of different mercury compounds.
Tycho himself was not a Copernican, but proposed a system in which the Sun orbited the Earth while the other planets orbited the Sun. His system provided a safe position for astronomers who were dissatisfied with older models but were reluctant to accept the Earth's motion. It gained a considerable following after 1616 when Rome decided officially that the heliocentric model was contrary to both philosophy and Scripture, and could be discussed only as a computational convenience that had no connection to fact. His system also offered a major innovation: while both the geocentric model and the heliocentric model as set forth by Copernicus relied on the idea of transparent rotating crystalline spheres to carry the planets in their orbits, Tycho eliminated the spheres entirely.
The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved most of the major European powers. Beginning as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a general war involving much of Europe, for reasons not necessarily related to religion. The war marked a continuation of the France-Habsburg rivalry for pre-eminence in Europe, which led later to direct war between France and Spain.
?Obviously you never read a word about the Crusades, the proceeding's decades that led to the Peace of Westphalia, the Puritans and the English Civil War, the wars following the rise of the Moslem religion, or any of the other atrocities committed - such as The Inquisitions, witch burnings, etc. etc, - all of this was due to social pressure? - No, I think not. Tycho Brahe preferred to die at the stake than disavow his belief in Copernican cosmology. Yeh, that had nothing to do with religion.Riiight!
When I was talking to a Muslim friend of mine she says that the Gods of religions are not the same.When I pointed out that the arch angel Gabriel visited both Christian and Muslim prophets she maintains there is no connection and that the name is just a coincidence!A Catholic friend, a priest, tells me that his Catholic God is not the same as others as his is the "one true God" and all others are false! A side note: the priest is now crippled from the constant kneeling down in prayer and unlike a plumber (similar problems from kneeling down) he cant get industrial injuries because he works for.. GOD!Looks like God treats his own with compassion..coughSeems to me that all the time there is more than one religion or more than one god it makes religion unworkable and laughable as it just becomes a case of "my god is better than yours"As Dawkings would say "When you talk about God which God are you talking about as there are many?"
When I was talking to a Muslim friend of mine she says that the Gods of religions are not the same.When I pointed out that the arch angel Gabriel visited both Christian and Muslim prophets she maintains there is no connection and that the name is just a coincidence! []A Catholic friend, a priest, tells me that his Catholic God is not the same as others as his is the "one true God" and all others are false! A side note: the priest is now crippled from the constant kneeling down in prayer and unlike a plumber (similar problems from kneeling down) he cant get industrial injuries because he works for.. GOD!Looks like God treats his own with compassion..coughSeems to me that all the time there is more than one religion or more than one god it makes religion unworkable and laughable as it just becomes a case of "my god is better than yours"As Dawkings would say "When you talk about God which God are you talking about as there are many?"