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[Luke -Jr]

On Monday 10 March 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
> --- Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 07 March 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
> > > While "it's traditional!" often leads to
> > > bad things like the burning of astronomer
> > > "heretics"
> >
> > You say that like it's happened, or that it would
> > be a bad thing if it did.
>
> Well, I don't know if its actually happened (though
> Galileo definitely got lifetime house arrest over
> "heretical astronomy").

I'm sure his arrest was merely "until he repented of his heresy" and quite 
justified. The heresy, of course, has little to do with the astronomy and 
rather was his add-on claim that his findings proved Holy Scripture to be 
errant.