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Old September 12th 18, 07:54 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Neil DeGrasse Tyson headed down same loony road as Carl Sagan?

On Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 12:07:18 PM UTC-6, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:

And Galileo's real problem


his problem was that he, too, was an asshole who
****ed off the wrong people.


No, his problem was that the "wrong people" had the power to threaten him with
torture and place him under house arrest, instead of just suffering their
annoyance either in silence, or with free speech of their own.

Had Italy in his day been under a modern democratic political system with
religious pluralism and legal protections for free speech and individual rights,
his situation could not possibly happen.

So his problem was that the Catholic Church was illegitimately exercising the
power of making law without being a modern democratically-elected government.

John Savard