Wow, I’m impressed! My sincere thanks go to the Catholic Church! Now that the Vatican’s top astronomer has said the world isn’t ending in 10 days, I can sleep at night…
Really? Do people really 1) Believe the Mayan calendar; 2) Believe a quack from the Vatican? Aren’t Mayans the ones who until fairly recently in history sacrificed new-borns to the gods? And isn’t the Catholic Church the same church that arrested Galileo for correctly documenting that it was the Sun and not Earth that was at the center of our Solar System; the church that ruined a man’s life and curtailed astronomical studies for 200 years? Yes, I thought so.
Why would anyone even remotely believe anything that these religious superstitious clans (as they all are) have to say about anything; especially when it has to do with science? Oh wait, I know, because people are f*cking STUPID!!! TGO
Refer to brief story below. Source: Associated Press
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s top astronomer has some assurances to offer: The world won’t be ending in 10 days, despite predictions to the contrary.
The Rev. Jose Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, wrote in Wednesday’s Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that “it’s not even worth discussing” doomsday scenarios based on the Mayan calendar that are flooding the Internet ahead of the purported Dec. 21 apocalypse.
Yes, Funes wrote, the universe is expanding and if some models are correct, will at one point “break away” — but not for billions of years. But he said Christians profoundly believe that “death can never have the last word.”
The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. The Mayans wrote that the significant 13th Baktun ends Dec. 21.
