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There is a difference between the "evidence" invoked by the Inquisition, and the actual reasons they felt they needed to torture and murder a loud defender of f
by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
There is a difference between the "evidence" invoked by the Inquisition, and the actual reasons they felt they needed to torture and murder a loud defender of free thought, free inquiry, free speech, and the Copernican model.
- watwut 8y agoWhy would Inquisition lie about that one and not wanted to really kill him for his religious ideas? Non scientists would be killed for those other ideas too. Inquisition had not reason to lie about free speech as they never considered it good thing or something valuable.
- jessaustin 8y agoThese ideas were considered dangerous. The Inquisitors knew about the Streisand Effect. If they killed him for praying incorrectly they wouldn't be publicizing his physics theories. Besides authority is enhanced when it kills people for arbitrary senseless reasons.