[telescope115]

Yup. The Church silenced a lot of people, Galileo chief among them. He is remembered a lot more than the people who silenced him. He has a great legacy.

[dfwgator]

Yup. The Church silenced a lot of people, Galileo chief among them. He is remembered a lot more than the people who silenced him. He has a great legacy.

[dragnet2]

The Church silenced a lot of people, Galileo chief among them. He is remembered a lot more than the people who silenced him. He has a great legacy.

That same exact attitude exists today. In fact it's probably worse, as some religions will cut your head off if ya don't go along with their religion program.

[fr_freak]

The Church silenced a lot of people, Galileo chief among them.

The Church didn't silence Galileo. In fact, for most of his life, they supported him and his work. He only ran afoul of the Church when he insisted on presenting the Copernican theory as fact (which many scientists of the day disagreed with, not just the Church) and then making theological conclusions from it, and even then, the charges against him weren't that drastic. He was somewhere around 60 years old when the trial took place.