/lit/ - Literature

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"galileo goes to jail and other myths about science and religion"

there was never a "condemnation" or persecution or "burning at the stake" most of this stories are pure lies.... basically Galileo's theory sparkle heavy discussion but he didn't have enough evidence to inmidiately prove his case...

and there were never "mass killings and torture by the inquisition" in fact the term inquisition means "inquiry" they were a proto-judicial-trial system put in place to avoid lynchings and to avoid the public from "taking matters into their own hands" with unmeasured violence the cases that are factual commited by this mechanism just like the witch trials are relatively few