• Nikola Tesla's ashes spark row between Serbian scientists and Orthodox church
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/pZJfwQFm.jpg[/img] [quote]A furious dispute has erupted between Serbian scientists and the Orthodox church after it was announced that the remains of the inventor Nikola Tesla will be reburied in a church. A pioneer in fields such as electricity, radio and x-rays, Tesla had 300 patents under his name by the time he died in 1943 and is revered by some as one of the most important scientific brains of the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla died in the US where he had spent much of his life, but in 1957 his ashes were moved to the Nikola Tesla museum in Belgrade, now the Serbian capital. Under pressure from the Serbian Orthodox church, government officials announced last week that they are planning to move Tesla's remains from the museum to the city's St Sava church – the largest Orthodox church in the world – where it is to be reburied alongside national heroes including the 14th-century Prince Lazar, who led a Christian army against the invading Ottomans.[/quote] I also believe that his urn should stay in the museum. [editline]4th March 2014[/editline] More At: [url]http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/04/nikola-tesla-ashes-serbian-scientists-church-belgrade[/url]
If he wasn't religious I don't see why they'd bury him in a church. Seems disrespectful to move him out of a science museum to a church of a religion he didn't subscribe to.
I don't know, sounds like it would be quite an honor to be buried there.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;44127396]I don't know, sounds like it would be quite an honor to be buried there.[/QUOTE] His beliefs are unconfirmed so we can't really be sure whether or not he would have been opposed to it. For some it would be an honor though.
[QUOTE=etrius0023;44127511]His beliefs are unconfirmed so we can't really be sure whether or not he would have been opposed to it. For some it would be an honor though.[/QUOTE] He was raised as an orthodox christian and although he later didn't necessarily subscribe to those beliefs he still supposedly had a great respect for christianity and buddhism. I doubt he would have been [i]offended[/i] by being put in a church at all, but I'd suppose he'd rather stay at the museum.
They should turn his ashes into a diamond, and mount it within something of his
Well the ashes were in the museum for some time, i don't see why should they move them.
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[QUOTE=Karmah;44127547]They should turn his ashes into a diamond, and mount it within something of his[/QUOTE] Maybe the secret to his solid state death ray was a diamond...
i don't understand why you would burn someone, keep their ashes, then decades later want to relocate this pile of dirt essentially. this isn't a government's job, total waste of time.
Wait, why aren't we fighting over Tesla's ashes?
[QUOTE=sYnced;44127873]i don't understand why you would burn someone, keep their ashes, then decades later want to relocate this pile of dirt essentially. this isn't a government's job, total waste of time.[/QUOTE] It is the fucking Serbian Orthodox church. Why on earth would you expect from THEM something that isn´t stupid?
Seems like a dick move to ignore the wishes of his descendents as well in doing this. What gives the Church any rights over his ashes?
They just want the control of lightning that possessing his ashes grants.
Worst thing i think about it is that he would be moved next to some leader of an army, Tesla was very anti war and anti fighting, he was a pacifist and the supposed death ray was supposed to be given to every country as a sort of Mutually Assured Destruction to prevent wars.
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