Thomas Aquinas attempted to reconcile astrology with Christianity by claiming the stars could influence the body but not the soul, effectively creating a theological loophole for medieval horoscopes.

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Thomas Aquinas attempted to reconcile astrology with Christianity by claiming the stars could influence the body but not the soul, effectively creating a theological loophole for medieval horoscopes. He argued that since most people let their physical passions rule them, astrologers were usually right, which is incredibly condescending but undeniably hilarious. One of the greatest theologians in history essentially stated that astrology works mostly because human beings are too dumb and impulsive to exercise their own free will, giving medieval royals a free pass to consult wizards

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Thomas Aquinas attempted to reconcile astrology with Christianity by claiming the stars could influence the body but not the soul, effectively creating a theological loophole for medieval horoscopes.

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Early leaders of the Catholic Church vehemently condemned astrology as a demonic practice, with prominent theologians like Saint Augustine arguing that believing the stars…

Early Christian theologians heavily debated whether the star of Bethlehem was actually a massive Jupiter conjunction

Pope John XXI was a practicing astrologer before the Catholic Church decided reading stars was heresy

Ptolemy wrote the Tetrabiblos in the second century, effectively creating the foundational textbook that almost all modern western astrology is still based upon today.

Ephemerides list absolute coordinates

Astronomy and astrology were considered the exact same legitimate scientific discipline for thousands of years, with early scholars like Galileo and Kepler practicing both without any distinction.

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