1. GALILEO VS. CATHOLIC CHURCH
Before leaving to face the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Rome, Galileo wrote a letter to a friend of his in which he stated, "I hear from well-informed parties that the Jesuit Fathers have insinuated in the highest quarters that my book is more execrable and injurious to the Church than the writings of Luther and Calvin... It had been this way since the very beginnings of the Church. ... In particular, Galileo was accused of challenging a verse from the Book of Joshua which stated, " Joshua prayed to the Lord, and said in the presence of Israel: "Stand still, o sun at Gabhaon, o moon, in t...
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