BreezeWood
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If you had done your homework in school, you would have learned that the Christian Church of England was the entity that ruthlessly enforced the notion of an earth centered universe. The mere suggestion by mathematicians of the time that the earth was not the center of the universe was addressed by the church with arrest, torture, ostracized from society.
oddly, they used a quote by galileo -
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. Standard practice demanded that the accused be imprisoned and secluded during the trial.
how they must miss their days of inquisitions than ravings on message boards - where most believe they are nuts.