The point is that he wasn't in danger from challenging the dogma, as you asserted above. That is dogma itself. If he was in danger, it was from embarrassing the

The point is that he wasn't in danger from challenging the dogma, as you asserted above. That is dogma itself. If he was in danger, it was from embarrassing the pope. He advanced helicentrism long before his heresy trial. The Pope met with him and said that he could write about Copernican theory. He was under house arrest for those years at the house of the Archbishop of Siena. It was a fairly nice life in those times. Galileo and the church got along very well, but they had to do something to save face for the Pope. I don't think it's ridiculous.