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@King_Noticer @SuperSnekFriend @Owl @Dan_Hulson @King_Porgi @Royper Much of academia was pushed along, funded, and assisted by the Church for the longest time.

The alleged persecution of Galileo was not because he was pushing Heliocentrism exactly. It was because when he was sponsored by the Pope to study and present both sides of the argument, he did so in paper that presented the Pope as a character named "Simplicito" and basically engaged in Lèse-majesté, which was punishable almost anywhere, on top of insulting the Supreme Pontiff.

At that, he was sentenced to lifetime house arrest and allowed visits, especially by his physician.

Galileo decided to be edgy while the Catholic Church was edgy from political instability. A bad time to do so.

I bring up Galileo because reddit-tier Atheists tell a quarter-truth about it, at best.