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To: stormer
Giordano Bruno

He was an ordained Benedictine who criticized His own Church's theology, not science, and you're wondering why he was labelled a heretic?
260 posted on 02/07/2005 12:47:16 PM PST by mike182d
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To: mike182d

"While his heretical beliefs of astronomical theories were not the only crimes for which he was burned at the stake, they most certainly fueled the fire from which Galileo no doubt smelled the smoke."


From Bad Astronomy by Linda Zimmerman


280 posted on 02/07/2005 1:35:23 PM PST by stormer (Get your bachelors, masters, or doctorate now at home in your spare time!)
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