Richard Crisp (SBC) wrote:
> this one is a bit unusual:
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> http://www.christiansky.com/newindex.html
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> FLAME SHIELD ENABLED>>>
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>
Well my reply to them was this:
Re: http://www.christiansky.com/newindex.html
And this one makes no real improvements.... Besides we live in a culture
that is a mix of things. I mean most people see Cygus as the Northern
Cross. I think Scropius does look like a scorpion just an animal,
Aquarius is just a roman figure. So are the twins and the Bull. Orion
to most people is just a hunter. So why do this and confuise children
and get children who learn the Christian sky into fights with those who
learn the traditional one.
So I don't see how this helps anyone. Anyone who goes on in Astronomy
will have to learn the standard one anyhow. We live in a mixed society
that has both religious and secular traditions. The founding fathers
knew this and that is why they knew freedom of relgion was so valuable.
SO one would not have to one religion or one vassriant of some religion
foreced down one's throat. Also it is not Christ or even the three wise
mean on the Capitol dome but Minerva the Greek Goddess of Wisdom. We
come out of a mix of all these things. If one wants to look for
Christian symbols one can look further south to Crux Astalis which is
styled as a Christian Cross but is viewable only from
the latitude of Florida.
Note if I were doing things I would make Orion, John the Baptist, and
the Twins Saints Cyril and Methodiious (remember I was born and Eastern
Rite Catholic) but the more I think of it, this is all more of a problem
that it is worth and it really cuts off from parts of our world
hertiage. So I think the sky which belongs to us all, and like in the
movie "Close Encounters of a Third Kind" when they mentioned "The Sky
Sings to Us All."
One thing I do notice that when teaching kids things about the sky. Be
it weather and meteorlogy or Astronomy the sky and things about it have
emotional influence on us at a deep level. So I can understand the
motivation but overall I thinfg we should not try to limit it to just
one thing or one religion or sets of religion.
The other thing is that they only did a few constellations. So I dunno
whther it is worth arguing about it. I mean I am sure there are like 5
or 6 traditions that would arrange the sky according to their sect. I am
tryuing to remember if anyone ever did this as a joke. The Sagitarrius
aare of the Zodiac always looked like a jet plane to me taking off in a
Northward Direction.
Have Fun,
Sends Steve
P.S. Hope this removes the "bcc problem"...
Received on Mon Apr 4 12:40:57 2005