From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/18/2026 2:01 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:30:47 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/17/26 18:07, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes, the Christian revisionism is alive and well, and still trying   
   >>> to deny that they ever tried to muzzle Galileo. They did.   
   >>   
   >> The RC Church is made of of Human beings. Human beings make   
   >> mistakes.   
   >   
   > That’s not how they portray themselves. The Pope is “infallible”,   
   > remember! They are acting on behalf of an “almighty god” who doesn’t   
   > make mistakes!   
   >   
   >> They thought they were trying to save Galileo from serious error ...   
   >   
   > No they weren’t. They were quite prepared to torture him to death just   
   > to preserve the unquestioned dominance of their own doctrine.   
   >   
   >> ... and they were wrong and have now admitted it.   
   >   
   > Where have there been such admissions? You still hear people (like the   
   > one I was responding to) trying to minimize the wrongness of that they   
   > did. As though it was Galileo’s fault for refusing to disown plain   
   > scientific evidence or something.   
      
    From Wikipedia:   
      
   On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II acknowledged that the Inquisition   
   had erred in condemning Galileo for asserting that the Earth revolves   
   around the Sun. "John Paul said the theologians who condemned Galileo   
   did not recognize the formal distinction between the Bible and its   
   interpretation."   
      
   pt   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)