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by chuckadams 761 days ago
The Inquisition was more about persecuting people who published dissenting works and finding any justification after the fact. Galileo was just repeating Copernicus’s theory, but he used the Vatican’s own press to do it, which made him a target.
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You must sit in the comfy chair until lunch time with only a cup of coffee at 11.