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To: JCBreckenridge

Oh my. It was heliocentrism instead of the earth being round. So tell me and the whole world JC, was Galileo imprisoned unjustly by your Church or not (regardless of the charge)? Just a simple yes or no.


193 posted on 05/31/2013 5:31:56 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I have sexdaily. Oops, I meant dyslexia.)
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To: BipolarBob

Regardless of charge? You’re seriously arguing that the charge doesn’t matter?

The charge *does* matter.

Had Galileo stated that his answers applied to the celestial realm and not to the teachings of the bible - he would have been fine.

Galileo went beyond that - asserting that where scripture and his teaching contradicted his teaching took precedence. This is why Protestants hail him as their private personal hero - because he affirms that the magisterium is not the authority, personal conviction is the authority.


196 posted on 05/31/2013 5:35:31 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: BipolarBob
"...was Galileo imprisoned unjustly by your Church or not..."

Galileo was justly imprisoned for breach of contract. It was his actions, not his ideas that got him into trouble.

Galileo was commissioned by the Church to investigate helioceotricism and to submit a report for consideration. He took the money, performed the study and then released his report to the public. Heliocentrism was a "revolutionary" (that's where we get the word) idea and any formal announcement or endoresement, either way, was going to be contentious. It had been sometimes violently contentious since introduced by Copernicus over 20 years before Galileo's birth. Galileo caused a lot of problems with his disclosure that could have been prevented had the work been more delicately introduced. The whole issue has been a distorted Protestant polemic cause since it occurred.

Peace be with you

206 posted on 05/31/2013 5:45:43 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a book, He left us a Church.)
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