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On June 22, 1633, Galileo was put on trial at #Inquisition headquarters in Roman Catholic Church for 'discovering that earth revolves around the Sun'.

Under threat of torture, imprisonment and even burning at the stake, he was forced, on his knees, to "abjure, curse and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
He was buried in a small room next to the novices' chapel at the end of a corridor after his death in 1642 because he had been condemned by the Catholic Church for "vehement suspicion of heresy".

He was reburied in the main body of the basilica in 1737 where a monument was built… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Sept. 11, 1822: The College of Cardinals finally caves in to the hard facts of science, saying that the “publication of works treating the motion of the Earth and the stability of the sun, in accordance with the opinion of modern astronomers, is permitted.

And it took another 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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June 8, 2015
CINTAMANI
2012portal.blogspot.com/2015/06/cintam…

#Cintamani is a sacred stone which came from Sirius star system.

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Millions of years ago, during a Galactic superwave, a planet orbiting #SiriusA exploded.

Its fragments traveled in all directions, some of them reaching #Earth after long journey through interstellar space. Image
In the last 26,000 years, the positive #Agarthans were guardians of Cintamani stones.

Throughout the history, they have given pieces of #Cintamani to some of those individuals who had the maximum potential positive influence on the human history. Image
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1/ The Portuguese #Inquisition and Female Homosexuality [Thread].
In Portugal, the legal authorities began to pay attention to female
homosexuality only at the end of the 15th century.
2/ The first royal edict to explicitly target female homosexuality was promulgated on 20 December 1499, during the reign of Manuel I (1495–1521).
3/ The Portuguese monarch, having received advice from his councilors and
lawyers, decreed that convicted female homosexuals were to suffer the same
sentence as male homosexuals, namely the death penalty.
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1) Starting a data series explaining India's #antiHindu system, 2nd class citizen status of Hindus and need for #HinduCharter (hint: #antiHindu system enjoys multi partisan support of all political parties, all branches of govt & so called pillars of #democracy & #equality) Image
2) Fountainhead of India's #antiHindu system is article 29&30 of constitution which cleverly denies #equalrights to Hindus allowing govt to enact #discriminatory laws/funding/programs & enables Supreme court to adjudicate contradictory laws in #antiHindu manner. #HinduCharter
3) Indian Govt confiscation of Hindu temples is 1 of the largest #religionfreedom violation in world. ALL political parties&Judiciary mostly support Hindu temple confiscation. For all practical purpose,Constitution right to freedom of religion is for nonHindus only. #HinduCharter Image
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Die neue Inquisition
anthroblog.anthroweb.info/2009/die-neue-…
Tweetthread - wichtige Zitate daraus folgen
#Totalitarismus #Inquisition #Säkularismus
"Der Ursprung des Totalitarismus liegt in der Idee der Orthodoxie, der Vorstellung, es gebe eine einzig richtige, allgemein verbindliche Wahrheit, und die Abweichung von dieser Wahrheit, die Häresie, sei ein gefährliches Übel"
"Im 19. Jahrhundert, so Versluis, etablierten »säkularistische« Denker eine Tradition der Verteidigung der Inquisition und im 20. trat das Phänomen der Ketzerverfolgung in den totalitären Systemen des Kommunismus und Nationalsozialismus wieder auf."
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