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A lot worse than Iraq

Martin Jr.

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Just a few points: The Spanish Inquisition was not about the earth being flat, and far fewer suffered under this inquisition than stories have said.
The Galileo incident was mostly political and not religious. Most all the Christian world thought the sun revolved around the earth. Galileo was asked not to teach this idea, as the Pope was worried it might drive the Protestants farther away. There were also other tensions between Galileo and the Pope. Copernicus had already made this discovery without any incident.
The Catholic Church never disaproved of people reading the Bible. Bible's were costly and most people could not afford one. Even after Gutenberg invented the printing press it was many years before it came into common use. There was one time, though I believe in southern France where reading the Bible was prohibited. This was partly backed by the government. ( Government and Church were too closely connected there) Reading the Bible in that case was causing many different groups believing many different things and disrupting the social life.
And it wasn't the Pope or the Bible in the Catholic Church. The Pope could not make moral declarations that were apposed to the Bible, and also had to go according to previous teachings handed down. As for Luther, he rejected the authority of the church and in effect made everyone his own pope.
 

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