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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by ltbarcly3 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:43PM (#12654439)
Well, it sounds like he was burned alive for some fairly mundane opinions that were not tolerated by the religious authorities who had at that time the power to murder anyone who disagreed with them.
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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by hprotagonist on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:33PM (#12655370)
or, in a word, politics.

this being a time in which the vatican had the single largest mercenary force in europe, and all. The church wasn't just "the religious authorities". The vatican had been the most stable de-facto state for much of Europe for something close to a millienia at that point.

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