[Antoninus]

Was is true religion when the Roman Catholics told Galileo the earth was flat? No, Galileo acknowledged the truthfullness of scriptures but held the interpreters in error.

Uh, careful with the "common knowledge" BS. To my knowledge, the dispute between the Catholic Church and Galileo(who argued against the geocentric universe and for the Copernican heliocentric system, not for a round Earth) was over his insistence that his theory was TRUTH rather than just a theory. And FYI, Martin Luther also condemned the Copernican system and Galileo himself died a Roman Catholic and was buried in consecrated ground within the church of Santa Croce in Florence.

[DannyTN]

In rereading my comments, I realized what is so objectionable. My apologies.

I did not intend to imply that Roman Catholicism was not Christianity or that Christianity is not the true religion. I meant to imply that the singular belief about the earth being the center of the universe was false, but they imposed that belief on everyone else or at least Galileo.

And you are right, it wasn't about the flat earth it was about the heliocentric system.