Why Did The Roman Catholic Church Prosecute Galileo? | Face The World | Absolute History
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Published 2022-04-17
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All Comments (21)
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Did I miss the part about the persecution of Galileo?
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This was more about expansion versus Galileo. I feel misled
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Nice video.
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28 minutes to tell what I can do in 6 words: Because he said they were wrong.
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No. The church told Galileo to promote both theories with equal prominence, which was sensible - without a theory of gravity, knowledge of other moons, the scale of the universe and an understanding of momentum it's far from obvious which theory is right. Galileo didn't do as he was told, so that was why he was prosecuted. Effectively contempt of court. The truth doesn't fule the 'science vs religion' debate so it's ignored in favour of this lie
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When the planet was finally visualized with satellite imagery, I wonder if there was a general sense of "Holy shit the OGs were right on the money with their maps."
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Can’t say I blame him for recanting- either that or execution by burning. Not everyone had the courage to stand up to the church but check out the dude Giordano Bruno. We don’t talk enough about him; he chose to stick to his beliefs and was burned at the stake.
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To be fair the protestant churches did the same with the spanish Miguel Servet because of Calvin in Geneve, Switzerland
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So James Cook was the one who did discover New Zealand? Come on, we all know the dutch VOC did. That is where name comes from.
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Wow, this is ridiculous.
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He was a potential risk to their revenue stream.
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Because they're cult dweebs. End of story
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Why does History STILL state that the first Europeans to, "discover" North America were Columbus and crew, when we now KNOW the scandinavians came first?
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terrible
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Humans have existed for over 100,000 years and yet it's been hardy 100 years since we have been able to put together an accurate image of the world we live on. We have barely left the cradle in terms of technological innovation.
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The Catholic Church doesn't know its own Bible. In the Book of Job, in the Old Testament, it says in chapter 26, verse 10, "He [our Creator] has described a circle on the face of the waters", describing the earth as a sphere. The Book of Job began being written in the year, 1657 B.C.E. and was completed in 1473 B.C.E. Don't forget the Roman Catholic Church was formed "after" the great Apostasy set into the Christian Church. Original Christianity, as begun by Jesus Christ, would have never burned anybody at the stake for any reason! The Bible not only describes the precipitation & the evaporation cycle as well as our DNA.
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The conquistadors didn't force the natives to worship their "Christian" god; it was their Catholic one. Protestants and Catholics are separated for a reason.
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They did not like anything that threatened their control of their followers... Do you know why Catholics stopped eating meat on Fridays?
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Today's science is like the Catholic church.
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Instead of actually explaining that Galileo was pushing his theory without any proof which is why the Catholic Church was prosecuting him, this is just an anti-Catholic video. History is more nuanced than "Catholic Church bad an protostant reformation good."
