The Current Evolution of Ancient Religious Institutions

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Can you give any specific examples of this "fairly hostile attitude" dissuading anyone from his research?

You do realize that hostility may be shown in many different ways -- such as rejecting scientific findings because they conflict with church doctrine. Tell us now that that newer happened. There's also the punishment of Galileo as I mentioned earlier. That religious men made scientific discoveries is only natural. The real question is how did the church take to discoveries that contradicted its myth. There's also Bruno:

Ideas could get you burned alive in 16th century Europe. Such was the fate of the Renaissance philosopher, Giordano Bruno. After a heresy trial that lasted eight years, the Roman Inquisition convicted him and burned him at the stake in the middle of the square of Campo de’ Fiori, in Rome in the year 1600. He had no last words because a metal clamp had been fastened to his tongue. He was carried to his killing on a mule; a tradition that probably evolved because many of the condemned could no longer walk after prolonged periods of torture prior to their execution.

After being publicly stripped naked, Bruno was tied up at the center of the cobblestone plaza. The authorities opted to carry out his sentence at dawn – the square, which is today Rome’s marketplace, located just a few blocks from where Julius Caesar was murdered, was not yet teeming with its daily hustle and bustle. Moments before the pyre was set ablaze, a cross was thrust in front of Bruno’s face. He turned his head away from it in defiance, his death imminent. And as the chants of a religious congregation echoed across the execution grounds, the obstinate heretic was devoured by the inferno.

https://historyhub.info/the-forces-behin...ano-bruno/

If science conflicted with their dogma, which was given primacy, do you think?