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To: Tribune7
Galileo was not treated fairly but you mustn't forget that he was a Christian, was supported by a lot of Christians
It's true that he had a lot of christian friends, among them, before he published "Dialogue", the pope. But it's worth noting that even though the pope even had had written poems to Galileo and enjoyed long conversations with him, their friendship ended after "Dialogue". After publication they never talked again, perhaps mainly because the pope thought (more or less correctly) that one of the fictional characters in the book was a caricature of him.
679 posted on 12/17/2002 6:44:15 AM PST by anguish
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To: anguish
Pope Urban VIII his special blessing to him as he was dying. Galileo was interred in consecrated ground within the church of Santa Croce at Florence.

Again, Galileo was not treated fairly. But he was not treated as horribly as is commonly thought, and the Church was not generally anti-science. And Christianity is certainly not anti-science.

681 posted on 12/17/2002 6:51:17 AM PST by Tribune7
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