I did not say the Catholic Church - it had some problems in the middle ages, no one disputes that. I said Christians.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but aren't Catholics Christians? Which particular Christians do you mean that didn't evolve (no pun intended) from the Catholics? Greek Orthodox?
He asked why, if Christians did not think the world was flat, did the Catholic Church recently apologize to Galileo. I was making a distinction that needed to be made. If my memory of history serves me, the issue with Galileo was that he claimed (correctly) that we were not the center of the universe, not that the Earth was round. That said, I believe there were many protestant religions in practice in the 1600's