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Atheists & Agnostics

onager

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2. Great! But his "imprisonment..."

Reply to mr blur (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 25, 2015, 12:09 PM

Apr 2015

Wasn't really imprisonment at all! It was just a very loose kind of house arrest, where Galileo lived comfortably in his own home.

Probably not even as bad as modern house arrest with the electronic ankle bracelet.

Why do you hate the awe, majesty and history of the Catholic Church? It practically invented science, you know. And it preserved whole libraries of scientific knowledge, except for the occasional festive bonfire in the town squares. Where it burned medieval porn, which needed burning anyway.*

*These are all things I've read on Other DU Groups, pretty much.

ETA - I meant to reply to the OP, not Mr. Blur.

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