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  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Just to point out, it's called the Spanish Inquisition because the regular Papal Inquisition, you know, the one that burned Giordano Bruno, imprisioned Galileo (who frankly had it coming) and got its start murdering Cathars, was considered too lenient and flaky for the Spanish monarchy.

    So the Royals got some priests together and started torturing Jews and anyone else in reach until they converted/re-converted/told them where their bank accounts were. This was considered a little bit too murdery (by, again, Pope Murders .inc) and there was a lot of talk about declaring it heretical itself.

    Which is to say, no, the trans lobby is not the Spanish Inquisition and you do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.

    • Sklorp [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      (who frankly had it coming)

      Bad take. Terrible take. Rethink this

      I genuinely can't think of an excuse for this take except being a massive chud or massive ignorance.

        • Sklorp [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Terrible. Awful. Wrong. Just a complete nonsense take. Not even the Catholic church believes this. The fucking pope came out and admitted they called that one wrong. There are multiple official Catholic decrees and official ststements by the church admitting that Gallileo was in the right. You should never find yourself in a position where you're defending the Catholic church more than the Catholic church is.

          Galileo was in active talks about the content of his book with the church, and the content was deemed fine, then because the church was getting owned elsewhere in Europe they do a 180 on him to avoid losing face without even telling the cardinal serving as liaison.

          Ffs They demanded he add counterarguments, bad counterarguments, to his own work in his book, lied to him through the entire affair and imprisoned him for life for being rude.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        He directly took on the Jesuit academic establishment over comets being atmospheric phenomena, and refused to back down, so they went gunning for him.

        • Sklorp [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          No. Galileo stopped publishing on comets after The Assayer.

    • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      imprisioned Galileo (who frankly had it coming)

      Ah yes, allow me to just accept a flat-earther's historical analysis

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Until Kepler (which Galileo basically blew off as a crank) it's arguable that the Tychonic model had better experimental and theoretical support.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        He was fine until he picked a fight with the Jesuits over what comets were (he was wrong) and then (possibly accidentally) called the Pope a simpleton in his book.