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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The truth about the Church and Galileo
The Political Housewyf has an informative, interesting post that details the complexities of the Galileo/Church dust-up, and shows that it was not as simple as a truth-seeker being oppressed by the entire hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
1 comment:
Yeah, the conventional story leaves out the part about Galileo publicly insulting the Pope, after being told NOT to insult the Pope no less.
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