Was Galilleo put in jail by churches for proving the truth contradicted bible?

Question

Now bible is surely a pile of horse dung, and anyone who has raised honest voice and critical reasoning towards it has been condemned and jailed by the christian authorities throughout history.

Another example is Thomas Woolston
Thomas Woolston, English writer, was put under house arrest for the remainder of his life when he voiced doubt about the resurrection and other Bible miracles.

Can't christian prove themselves rather than attacking other honest people?

Answer 1

fear of the truth is the hallmark of every monotheistic religion and they have all gone through certain phases on their way to other phases. judaism being the oldest of the three, went first and killed many of its own people as well as others to prove their god was best, then it was the christians as you have noted, and now it is the muslims...the jews and christians HAVE moderated their positions and no longer murder others for their beliefs, the muslims have not evolved enough yet and are still in the 'if you don't believe in allah, you must die' phase...give them another hundred years or so, along with the west's 'prodding', they should stop soon...

Answer 2

No Doctor Galileo Galilie was confined for the rest of his life in his villa in Arcetri, some distance from Florence.

Galileo was never in gaol.

The religious conspiracy was trying to build political evidence which took many years and by the time the Vatican and Roman Catholic Church brought charges against Galileo a decade later.Galileo had produced a lot of books on science.

Galileo held the principle of theory: 'I think that in discussions of physical problems we ought to begin not from the authority of scriptural passages, but from sense-experiences and necessary demonstrations. Nor is God any less excellently revealed in Nature's actions than in the sacred statements of the Bible.'

The Pope Maffeo Barberini delivered Galileo into the hands of the Holy Office of the Inquesition.

By the way these two were supposed to be mates.

It was Cardinal Bellarmine that sent the astronomer Giordano Bruno to the stake for his intolerable theorem of the stars were infact planets.

For the Church held the stars were crystal spheres held up by a ceiling of blue cover.

Another religeous theorem was that all the souls of the earth lived up there and the lights were their candels at night shining in the sky.

Answer 3

Actually, Galileo was arrested and condemned by the Church more because he was kind of a dick about he announced his findings, and how he used it as a soapbox to point out some of the various shortcomings of the politics within the Church at the time.

The Church was all ready to go with heliocentrism, and agree with Galileo's findings, but Galileo was the one who got all confrontational and playing pokey-chest with the Church. He was the one who created the dichotomy between Church and science, not the other way around.

So rather than being the fore-father of rational thought, Galileo was actually the one who paved the way for religious fundamentalism being opposed to examining scientific inquiry in any fashion beyond a literal interpretation of the Bible, and driving scientists away from a synthesis of mind and spirit.

If Galileo had been a bit more diplomatic about the way he presented his work, we might not have the divisive religion / science dichotomy we see today, and teaching subjects like evolution might not be an issue.

Maybe these folk should serve as an example to us atheists as to how not to present an argument. Calling people 'idiots' rarely gets them to view your theory in a critical, unbiased manner.

Answer 4

Dear Mr. No-Nonsense:
With all due respect, you have made a slight oversight.
"Christian authorities" ....that's the critical expresssion.
There are people claiming to be doctors, that are not really doctors.
There are people claiming to be lawyers, that are not really lawyers.
There are people (even whole organizations) claiming to be christian, that are not really christian.
Imposters exist.
Those who jailed Galileo and Mr. Woolston would seem to come under that category.
BTW Must you really refer to the Bible as horse dung?
Such petty name-calling takes away from any valid point you may make.

Answer 5

Galileo wasn't arrested because of the heliocentric theory itself. As a matter of fact, it had been proposed before, and the church had not made a strict determination. He was arrested because he used his audience to poke at some of the internal politics of the church members, and for having a smart mouth in front of the cardinals.

History wrote down that he was incarcerated in the name of truth. That may be a very romantic notion about one of the most well-known individuals of western civilization, but it isn't the whole story.

Answer 6

Galileo had more issues with the church than the heliocentrism/geocentrism issue (as I am sure some theists will point out) but the fact remains that geocentrism was accepted church doctrine at the time and to go against it was heresy.

See also the current evolution 'debate', I don't doubt that if this had taken place in 1600 we would by now have a lot of biologists locked away or burned at the stake.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

So two extreme cases biases your thoughts on the entire Christian faith? Have you ever met me? Have I ever put anyone under house arrest or had someone put in jail for speaking their mind?

Do more research than looking at the massive stereotypes that Christians are given and you might actually find the good people that are trying to live a Christ-centered life.

Answer 9

What do you mean by Christians? The Roman Catholics who never believes the Bible except from what their Pope approves and cannonize or the real true Bible Christians (Protestants) who make the Bible as their final authority in faith and in practice? Never in Protestant America.

Answer 10

No, Galilleo was put in jail because he proved that the rulers of the church in Rome had once again added to God's Word with their own man made interpretations.

Job 26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. 7 He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

Back when other religions were teaching that the earth rested on the back of a man named Atlas or on a giant turtle the Bible told us that God hung it in the void of space on nothing.