Saturday, January 21, 2012

Why did the Church prosecute Galileo when the Jesuit astronomers already accepted the Copernican model?

He was outspoken and high-profile, and they decided to make an example of him. Can't have anyone questioning the authority of the church. Pretty much the same today. None of the Nazi Holocaust perpetrators were excommunicated, but plenty of those who questioned the church's authority in that time period were.

No comments:

Post a Comment