I said "But if he hadn't promoted heliocentrism would he have been locked up?". What you're saying is consistent with "No, he would not have been locked up", y

I said "But if he hadn't promoted heliocentrism would he have been locked up?". What you're saying is consistent with "No, he would not have been locked up", yet you're claiming "it was not a problem with heliocentrism". Taking this from another angle, you say "He was given the way out of stating it as a Hypothesis." A "way out" implies there was something wrong done -- presenting a heliocentric view -- that you can get out of being punished for.