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** Despite popular belief, [[Christianity Is Catholic|The Vatican]] has historically had an attitude of "God can do anything, so anything is possible." When Copernicus' friend Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter lectured about the early findings implying a heliocentric solar system, Pope Clement VII and several cardinals all attended, were fascinated, and one wrote a letter to Copernicus encouraging him to publish his findings. With the exception of a few [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]s using scripture to push an agenda, the Catholic hierarchy has been silent or supportive about just about every scientific theory. True to the trope's name, they've even come out in support of the existence of alien life.
*** So, you're saying that only a few bureaucrats burned Bruno and put Galileo under house arrest? Not quite what happened.
**** No, he's saying that the Church's official rejection of heliocentricism is not representative of the majority of the Church's history. Which it isn't -- the anti-heliocentric agenda was confined largely to one century (out of the millennia the Catholic Church has existed), several high officials of the Inquisition, and two Popes. Bruno and Galileo just had the misfortune of landing smack dab in the middle of that period. And even that period of ultra-orthodoxy had a proximate cause rather than just being random nonsense; reaction and aftershocks to the Protestant Reformation.
*** Actually, they've come out in support of their religious ideas still being true even if alien life is found.
** Reports of [[Alien Abduction]] are steadily increasing, while reports of being impregnated by horny gods or demons have all but vanished (supposed house hauntings and demon possessions, however, remain popular).
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