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Old March 18th 19, 02:35 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Paul Schlyter[_3_]
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Default This is no taunt

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 05:09:31 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
wrote:
On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 2:55:53 AM UTC-6, Gerald Kelleher

wrote:
but presently they also use the insight to diminish Christianity

via the
failings of the denominational Churches.

It wasn't Lutherans who brought Galileo before the Inquisition.


True. But Luther was in full agreement with the pope and the Catholic
church that Copernicus was a dangerous heretic. So in that respect
the Lutherans were no better than the Catholics. If Galileo had been
active in a Lutheran country he surely would have been punished by
the Lutherans.