Because the Church didn't even have a good theological reason for siding against Galileo. It was a fit of pique.
But people have so completely internalized the idea that truth must bow to power that they think the fact that the Church condemned Galileo's ideas because he was rude somehow exonerates it as an institution.
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Because the Church didn't even have a good theological reason for siding against Galileo. It was a fit of pique.
But people have so completely internalized the idea that truth must bow to power that they think the fact that the Church condemned Galileo's ideas because he was rude somehow exonerates it as an institution.