“but Galileo was an ass. He brought the whole thing on himself.”
One being an ass somehow giving a church the right to arrest and try them is a cornerstone of ISIS. It is wholly against everything Christ lived and taught.
The church in that period was tragically lost spiritually.
If he was an ass, then they could ignore, refute, or forbid their members from referring to it. Anything else made them no better than Stalin, ISIS, King George, the democrat party, or the Nazis.
Do you know what his punishment was? He was confined to a luxury apartment with all his equipment so he could further his research. Some Nazis, eh?