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In Reply to: Galileo and Stubborn people posted by Alissa Henry on January 28, 1999 at 16:25:20:

It certainly does look like the church was stubborn with regards to Gallileo and his pardon. Lets face the facts when you are dealing with an establishment that is supposedly taking their orders from God they can't be changing their minds all the time. And while I am on the subject of time I have to wonder what the churches concept of time is. If someone is excommunicated but pardoned maybe 3 or400 years later does it really matter how long it takes if the person, in the end finally gains heaven. After all what are 400 years of torment or purgatory to eternity in bliss? I don't know about how or why the church took so long but I think it may have had something to do with that, maybe they knew they were wrong back then but wanted to keep themselves justified in the eyes of the believers, so they had to wait a couple generations so they wouldn't look bad.

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