Galileo could have been burned at the stake for telling the truth

[Jitendra Hydonus]

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/world/after-350-years-vatican-says-galileo-was-right-it-moves.html

At the time of his condemnation, Galileo had won fame and the patronage of leading Italian powers like the Medicis and Barberinis for discoveries he had made with the astronomical telescope he had built. But when his observations led him to proof of the Copernican theory of the solar system, in which the sun and not the earth is the center, and which the Church regarded as heresy, Galileo was summoned to Rome by the Inquisition. Forced to Recant

By the end of his trial, Galileo was forced to recant his own scientific findings as "abjured, cursed and detested," a renunciation that caused him great personal anguish but which saved him from being burned at the stake.

[mccoy]

Yes, fortunately, common sense prevailed. His book 'Dialogues...' was forbidden in 1633 but then authorized by the same Church in 1710. The dawn of Dwapara Yuga started to shed some light after the darkness of Kali Yuga.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Yes, fortunately, common sense prevailed. His book 'Dialogues...' was forbidden in 1633 but then authorized by the same Church in 1710. The dawn of Dwapara Yuga started to shed some light after the darkness of Kali Yuga.

The vast progression of time often destroys misconceptions.

[mccoy]

Yes, fortunately, common sense prevailed. His book 'Dialogues...' was forbidden in 1633 but then authorized by the same Church in 1710. The dawn of Dwapara Yuga started to shed some light after the darkness of Kali Yuga.

The vast progression of time often destroys misconceptions.

Yes, I often wonder at the progress made by the Catholic Church since I was a little boy, more than half a century ago. Quite a few destroyed misconceptions.