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Originally Posted by George
Yes. The Pope was taking flack from places like Spain who were demonstrating, apparently, more zeal than he and the Italians were. To punish Galileo, their hero, may have given the Pope more credibility in the larger political arena, though less credibility with powerful Tuscany (home of Galileo). The price paid by the Church, however, shouldn't last more than, say, 500 or 600 years.  |
I'm sorry, but those
individuals who work to actively oppress the expansion of human knowledge deserve
no quarter. Not in 10 years, not in 100, not in 1,000. The Roman soldier who killed Archemedes all those millenia ago (
against orders, I might add) deserves to be cursed for all eternity. The pain and suffering and centuries of darkness he caused all of humanity, outweigh the "simple" crime of him murdering one man by a large measure.