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❝ Too many in our world refuse to acknowledge what both science and the Church plainly teach,” he said, “that we bear a solemn responsibility for the stewardship of our planet and for the welfare of those who dwell upon it, especially the most vulnerable, whose lives are imperilled by the reckless exploitation of both people and the natural world.” ❞
the Vatican had the largest science library, lab and astronomical observatory for centuries before it all fell in disrepair.
remember the Sun King? EU monarchical politics postponed the issue of Galileo due to how monarchs were claiming how THEY controlled the universe.
not a coincidence Pope Leo XIII was elected just as the Hapsburg monarchies were collapsing and the idea of divine rule was killed with a shot to the head.
the Galileo issue was always political.
One of the proponents of the Big Bang Theory was literally a Catholic priest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
@regendans @rcosta @blogdiva they did come back from that…the modern incarnation of the Vatican Observatory is Jesuit-run https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/jesuits-and-the-vatican-observatory/
(there is a historian of science on here who will tear you a new one about the nuances of the Galileo affair but, for your sake, I am not paging him lol)
after Galileo, one of the most important cases of scientific censorship ―and defense against excommunication― was of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in México. she was part of what would have been my dissertation on the baroque and neobaroque in América Latina, so yeah am ghastly aware of the nuances.
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Also, Galileo might have gotten away with his book, if he hadn't put the literal Pope's literal arguments in favor of geocentrism into the mouth of a character literally called "idiot". That whole kerfuffle was just as much about Galileo as a person as about his science.
(Also Giordano Bruno was not burned at the stake only because of his astronomy but also for denying the virgin birth and that Jesus was indeed the Messiah)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
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Geocentrism is dumb and Galileo was 1000% correct. Speaking truth to power is the best option 9/10ths of the time
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