Page 50 - Emperor Constantine Enforcer of the Trinity Doctrine

(At left Galileo before the Inquisition his crime was simply teaching the truth.) “As Galileo pursued his astronomical research, his telescope revealed that the sublime sun had spots on its face-and they moved, indicating that the sun rotated. The moon, supposedly smooth, was pocked with craters and mountains. He saw Saturn’s rings but could not figure out what they were. He apparently sighted Neptune several times but did not realize that it was a planet.
Although these stunning discoveries obviously ran counter to Roman Catholic doctrine, Galileo seemed unconcerned at first. “The Bible shows the way to go to heaven,” he commented in a letter to one of his disciples, “not the way the heavens go.” The letter eventually ended up in the hands of the Inquisition. When Galileo heard that he was being investigated, he decided to go to Rome to clarify his position. Nevertheless, in February 1616, the Holy Office in the Vatican declared the sun-centered theory to be “foolish and philosophically absurd” and also banned sales of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus, which Galileo had openly admired. Galileo was ordered to stop teaching heresies (which were actually the truth). The astronomer said that he would comply, but he kept on compiling his thoughts in a book that he attempted to publish some years later in 1630.
The Church censors demanded revisions. Galileo, now in his late sixties and physically infirm, cried out in despair. “My life wastes away,” he mourned, “and my work is condemned to rot.” But after tinkering with the preface in an attempt to mollify the censors, he published the book in 1632 under the title Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems. Pope Urban VIII was furious, and ordered Galileo to Rome to face a full-dress inquisition, despite the protest of a sympathetic official, who declared Galileo to be so sick that he might die en route. In Rome, the aged scientist was commanded to recant the whole concept of a heliocentric planetary system. The sick old man caved in. "I do not and have not held this opinion since the command was given me that I must abandon it,” he quavered.
Satisfied but totally unsympathetic, the Pope sentenced Galileo to a life-time of house arrest at the astronomer’s home in a village outside Florence. [Had Galileo not recanted he would have been put to death like so many others were.] There Galileo lived and worked on for nine years more, growing blind from his illness and bitterly denouncing his judges for their “hatred, impiety, fraud and deceit.” He died in 1642, and more than a century passed before Rome brought itself to accept his visible proofs-or Kepler’s physical laws-on the nature of the solar system.”
If the Roman Catholic Church was wrong about the Earth being flat then could it not also be wrong about the Trinity Doctrine? The answer is yes! Many were put to death because they simply disagreed with irrational superstitions of the Roman Catholic Church.
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