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The Mai Lai massacre stopped by Hugh Thompson, was a tragedy, and the soldiers involved were tried and sentenced. I'm not sure that there was as much “evil” connected with it as miscommunication. The argument was that “superiors must have known something that we don't” and the soldiers were just following orders. Lt. Calley insists he was given specific orders and although he should have questioned them more, they were what caused the killing. I'm not surw who you put in the crosshairs in this action as villain. Lt. Calley? Gen. Colin Powell?Lets just put Thompson on a pedestal as hero and go on to the next issue.
I disagree. Please refer to Rodney Stark's work on Christianity being the single spark that engendered Science – not climate. The coincidence that Christianity abounded in Europe which had cold climatesmay be more impoortant than temperature. There was plenty of people in cold climates who never embraced science and technology, but as soon as Christianity reached them, they also climbed the ladder of scienctific progress. Perhaps religiosity being the impetus of modern thought is not readily apparent because such a jaded attack on religion has been made by Atheists who misstated history to paint religion opposite to how it was. They created untrue attacks that showed religious believers are vapid dupes wrapped up in magical preachments that allow bigotry, bias, and hatred to flourish in the name of Church and God. After all, hasn't religion been the root cause of all wars throughout history, and the cause of the Dark ages that destroyed civilization, until Liberal atheistic elites appeared, giving birth to the Rennaissance?Why were we taught in school that Columbus almost never discovered America because the religious zealots said he was a heretic? We all learned in school that the church decreed the Earth was flat and that was that. Going back farther, who hasn't learned that the great enlightened civilization of Greece and Rome ended when the Church entered the picture, and then began a "Dark Ages" That lasted until The Rennaissance? This disinformation is all wrong, yet believed devoutly by the Left. Rodney Stark in How Christianity (and Capitalism) Led to Science presents the accepted and unargued true history that is unreported in school books.
It was Andrew Dickson White who wrote:The warfare of Columbus [with religion] the world knows well: how the Bishop of Ceuta bested him in Portugal,; how sundry wise men of Spain confronted him with the usual quotations from Psalms, from St, Paul, and from St. Augustine; how, even after he was triumphant, and after his voyage had greatly strengthened the theory of the Earth's sphericity... the Church by its highest authority solemnly stumbled and persisted in going astray... the theological barriers to this geographival truth yielded but slowly. Plain as it had become to scholars, they hesitated to declare it to the world at large... But in 1519 science gains a crushing victory. Magellan makes his famous voyage. He proves the Earth is round, for his expedition circumnavigates it... Yet even this does not end the war. Many conscientious [religious] men oppose the doctrine for two hundred years longer.Every history book recounts how Columbus fought the religious extremists who used the Bible to decree the Earth was Flat. Name anyone who knows any different! White lied. He was running for President of Cornell and admitted he wrote this to "get even with his Christian critics of his plans for Cornell." Every educated person of Columbus's time knew the earth was round. This includes Roman Catholic theologians. The Venerable Bede (ca. 673-735) taught that the Earth was round, as did Bishop Virgilius of Salzburg (ca. 720-784). Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), and Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274), and all four became Saints. It was part of an ages-old conspiracy of atheists to portray Religion as being anti-Science. Columbus was not argued out of sailing off the edge of the world. The scientist of his day knew the world was round - but much larger than Columbus estimated. He put Japan at being only 2,080 miles from the Canary Islands, but the "sundry wise men of Spain" knew it was over 14,000 miles. Had Columbus not run across an unsuspected continent - his crew would have all died at Sea.But then again, the entire "Dark ages" is a crock. Christianity actually inspired science. There was no science in ancient Greece or Rome. Aristotle thought the weight of objects were proportional to the speed with which they dropped. A simple test by dropping two different weights off a cliff never ocurred to him. Guesswork without empiricism is not science. It was only at the birth of Christianity, that a wise God appeared who fostered the idea that science could be done and should be done. The Church understood there was a duty to understand God's handiwork, the better to marvel at it.As for a time of barbarism, superstition, and widespread ignorance - there was no "Dark Ages." The march of progress was sure and steady, and sparked by the Christian concept of the world as an understandable creation following understandable laws which needed to be studied. The phrase, "Dark Ages," was a myth, first used in the early 19th century by atheists to claim credit for a sudden "enlightenment" that occurred against the Church's wishes. In fact it was the Church that fostered science. Quintus Tertullian instructed in the second century, "Reason is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason?? nothing which He has not willed should be handled and understood by reason." The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.Yet, every good Liberal knows Gibbons wrote The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and blamed the Fall of Rome and the rise of barbarism on Christianity. Historians disagree - yet the schools still distort the truth. The New Columbia Encyclopedia (1975) says the term "Dark Ages" is no longer used by historians because this era is no longer thought to have been so dim. The Encyclopedia Britannica concurs.Okay, Phidippides, I found this post and am very upset at the lack of response to it.Let me clear up a few things about Tesla. He was the all time greatest inventer of all time, eclipsing Edison and Bell. For one thing, he invented radio. Marconi was a greedy, grasping little man, of whom Peter Wright, author of Spycatcher wrote was an unlikeable character. Wright was the first Scientist/spy in MI6 - the real life "Q" who supplied James Bond with all his technological marvels. In his autobiography, Wright explained that his father worked in Marconi's lab, and both he and his father would cross the street rather than have to acknowledge his presence. Marconi popularized Tesla's patents and claimed they were his. It took the Supreme Court to award the actual ownership of the creation of the Radio to Tesla, years after Tesla died in ignominy. To this day, there are still radio award shows giving "The Marconi Award" to celebrated broadcasters. Reminds me of Al Gore's misinformation about his minor part in lobbying for the "Internet II" project designed as an intranet in Education, which his speechwriters spun into his fathering the entire Internet.A teacher taught his Junior High School (or elementary school) class all about Tesla, and they went to the Smithsonian museum to see the Tesla exhibit. What they found was no mention of Tesla at all, and most of his inventions and discoveries placed in Edison's exhibit, and misidentified as being Edison's inventions. The kids looked at the exhibits, and saw Tesla's patent numbers attached to them. In an era of revisionism, when the Smithsonian was calling Nagasaki and Hiroshima war crimes, these kids took on the museum and forced them to recognize Tesla and fix their errors.Everytime you take a drink of water from a drinking fountain, think of Tesla. He invented it.
Phidippides, no… I haven't come across your post on Tesla. (Note: this is my second post )I would like to see it, so I'll do a search for Tesla and see what comes up.As for Tesla and his "Death Ray," please take notice of his many experiments that sent energy rebounding through the earth. It has been alleged that the USSR took his process and perfected it into a weapon. Since he was able to destroy his own turbines he designed for the Colorado Power plant, it is not unbelievable. I can't look around and see anything that Tesla didn't have an impact on. Almost everything is based on AC current, and his fingerprints are all over our lives today. If Westinghouse hadn't renegfed on their handshale agreement with him, he wouldn't have died a pauper.One of the more fascinating things about Tesla was a statement he once made. He said his inventions come him to him fully finished and "float in space" in front of him, partially blinding him, until he writes them down
Hello!I would love to see a biographical film made of the incredible life of Nikola Tesla.More info on Tesla In 1931, Tesla is honored by being on the cover of Time Magazine, and received congratulations from more than 70 pioneers in science and engineering including Einstein... In 1943, Tesla dies penniless, a lonely man at 87 in room 3327 in the Hotel New Yorker, his only remaining friends the pigeons he fed in the park. In 1944, Tesla was finally awarded the Patent for Radio. The US Supreme Court confirms that Marconi?s patents infringed Tesla's.A far greater inventor than Edison, he was employed by Edison for a while, and turned into Edison's greatest nemesis. Edison lost the contract to provide energy to the Chicago World's Fair to Tesla, and never forgave him. When Tesla wired his AC wiring throughout the exhibition, Edison refused him the use of Edison's light bulb - so virtually overnight, Tesla reinvented the light bulb without infringing any Edison patents.One of the most important inventions of Nikola Tesla was was the electrical transmitter. Shortly after leaving his Colorado research facility and returning to New York, Tesla began construction of an gigantic version of this invention, to be known as The Wardenclyffe Tower. Constructed between 1900-1905, the tower stood 187 ft into the air, with a 68 ft. metal dome. The purpose of the tower was to transmit wireless messages across the Atlantic. Tesla believed this to be a simple procedure, and later confirmed through experimentation, that the Earth conducts electricity naturally, much like a metal ball. Tesla hypothesized that Earth could be charged from a single location and energy could be safely extracted from any other point on the globe's surface. The Earth could be pumped with electricity and anyone on its surface could remove it by simply placing a wire into the ground. This energy could be withdrawn in unlimited amounts for unlimited uses, free for all the world's people! Financier J.P. Morgan footed the bill until he realized the main purpose of the project was to provide free energy to the entire globe. He was upset that he couldn't run this energy through a meter and charge for it. The Wardenclyffe Tower was never completed. Morgan refused Tesla the funds necessary to complete construction, and finding alternate financing proved impossible. The Tower at Wardenclyffe was later dismantled under F.B.I. supervision. As supremely successful as all Teslas's projects were, when he said this could power the world, it is not illogical to give him credence. See the Tesla Wardenclyffe ProjectThe successful demonstrations of the effect he was harnessing was done several times. The most noteworthy was his almost total destruction of the Colorado power station. He began bouncing power waves through the Earth, where they echoed and were continually reinforced until the energy rebounding through the Planet was quite substantial. Substantial enough to accidently fry the Turbines in the Colorado Department of Energy.http://prometheus.al.ru/phisik/wireless.htm
