>>> history bears witness to the magnitude of the error — that it has allowed the Church to be unfairly stained with charges of anti-science, when in fact the Church created the very ground in which Western Science could flourish. There is a supreme irony and bitter tragedy in this reality...The cost of sin is large, and beyond imagination. <<<
Then again, there are a lot of anti-Christian and anti-Catholic bigots out there (not to mention Epicurians) who have an axe to grind. If not the Galileo Affair, then some other incident would have been elevated to mythic status to slam the Church and “Religion.” And if they couldn’t find some event that would do the job — Bruno doesn’t fit the “scientist” mold that well — they could just make it up from whole cloth: look at the case of “Columbus and the Flat Earth” myth.”
After a certain point you’re no longer talking about history, just propaganda.