Quote:Atheists suggest that Galileo was wronged by the Church, but how does one convince people who have long believed the world to be flat without being able to prove otherwise with visual proof, or actually sailing around the world??? For some reason atheists think it should have been easily reasoned by the Church officials and that it was their responsibility to announce the new ideas to the peasants.
The shape of the Earth had nothing do with Galileo’s trouble with the Church. It had to do with 1) his contention that the Earth moved round the sun, 2) his rather crabby attitude, and 3) his inability to know when to shut up.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
