The Vatican is recasting the most famous victim of its Inquisition as a man of faith, just in time for the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope and the U.N.-designated International Year of Astronomy next year.
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The church denounced Galileo's theory as dangerous to the faith, but Galileo defied its warnings. Tried as a heretic in 1633 and forced to recant, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, later changed to house arrest.
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In 1992, Pope John Paul II declared that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension."
See, it was not the Church's fault, it was a mutual fault.
The Catholic Church's error was that they didn't comprehend a complex scientific fact that Galileo had just proven. Certainly an understandable mistake on their part.
Galileo's error was that he didn't realize what a bunch of Fracking asshats the Catholic Church was until it was too late.
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Nicely put. I went to star this post, but then remembered that I wasn't on Twitter.
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