Most people understand the trial of Galileo Galilei as a key example of religious bigotry clashing with the advance of science and the textbook case of "Medieval" ignorance and superstition being superseded by reason and science. In fact, the whole rather complex affair was not the black-and-white "science vs religion" fable of popular imagination and the positions of both Galileo and of the various churchmen involved were varied and complex.... and again.
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So the truth is that when the Church had power it put Galileo on trial about his publications and convicted him due to politics. Good to know.
It never ceases to amaze me how some Catholics think convicting someone for spurious theological or political reasons somehow ' makes it all better'. In their minds, apparently, that solves the problem entirely. Let's all bevglad the church has no power to persecute people for any reason anymore.
Right. We've got the secular state to do it now.
And who said that persecuting Galileo for his unproven scientific claims "makes it all better"?
If Galileo were to return today and become a man made climate change denier, people like Singring would be the first to convict him for heresy.
Except instead of being prosecuted, deniers get big checks from Big Oil.
deniers BIG OIL We have a winner
KyCobb,
And warmers don't get big academic grants from large donors?
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