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Old March 18th 19, 06:22 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 8:35:11 AM UTC-6, Paul Schlyter wrote:

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.


Yes, that's true. Luther said of Copernicus that he was a fool who would turn
the whole science of astronomy upside-down. But the point is that the
persecution of Galileo is not among the faults of the "denominational Churches",
a phrase the OP uses apparently with the meaning of non-Roman Catholic churches.

John Savard