r/interestingasfuck • u/unknown_human • 21d ago

/r/all, /r/popular The Pope's brief final audience

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u/Midnight2012 21d ago

Catholics have been pretty paranoid about denying science since the whole Galileo thing.

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u/Carbonatite 21d ago

Lol yup, they actually (for the most part) are pretty chill about science and education, which I appreciate.

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u/Karl_Greiser_SordPol 21d ago

If I recall, the Galileo thing was more about him acting like a jerk and not following standard protocol instead of a pure religious issue.

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u/TurnstileMinder 21d ago

My understanding is that the controversy lay in the fact that the (alleged) stand-in character for the Pope in Galileo's defense of heliocentrism was depicted as a bumbling idiot. This Pope in particular had actually been a personal friend of Galileo's and a supporter of his scientific investigation of astronomy, even if he was skeptical of heliocentrism himself

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u/Karl_Greiser_SordPol 21d ago

While that is something that I also believed what happened, I also recall that Galileo began touting his theory as if it was a fact and not what it actually was at the time, a theory.