The Truth About Galileo

I’m tired of people saying that Christianity is against science because Galileo was killed by fundamentalists. That is a commonly perpetrated lie that many people who don’t know the history believe. Thankfully Axinar seems to know the true story, but maybe some of you don’t.
After many years in the Christian Church, with the development of the hierarchy, and other things that departed from the clear teaching of the Bible, the Roman Catholic church as we know it today came about. This organized church at Rome, with the pope as its head, embraced the teachings of Aristotle, Plato, (to a certain extent) and other Greeks. Aristotle, as is widely known, set forth formally the theory of geocentrism. The Papists accepted this view, and made it an official doctrine of the Church.

However, nowhere in the Bible does it say that the earth revolves around the sun. It implies it several times, (e.g. in Joshua) but God did that so that people before Galileo could understand what He was saying. It would sound silly to an ancient Eastern man to say, “the earth stopped rotating, and therefore the day became longer.” It wouldn’t make any sense. Even we today say the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. We don’t say, “2 hours after earthturn I’ll meet you at the park.” We say, “2 hours after sunset I’ll meet you at the park.” We say it even though the sun isn’t actually moving, we are. The Bible contains other references to facts that were not widely believed then. For example, Isaiah 40:22 speaks about the Earth being round.

Anyway, Galileo discovered that the Earth orbits the sun, not vice-versa. He published his works, and was nearly executed by the Papists for “heresy.” Roman Catholics are by no means fundamentalists. They are (in my opinion) not even Christians.
So don’t say anymore that Christianity and the Bible is opposed to science.