My brain follows rabbits down trails. The internet helps me with this indulgence.
Today I came back to Martin Luther and the Diet of Worms. I probably hadn’t thought of this since high school.
The power of one man’s conviction. reality always wins. God is not mocked, to coin a phrase.
Funny how the people stifling reality saw themselves to be on God’s side and perceived Luther and Galileo to be on the anti-God side. (Or more subtly, they may have perceived an erosion of their entrenched power).
Don’t fall into smug feelings here. It is easy to justify your belief that you are right, whether you are the Pope or the Heretic. Are you right? That’s another question entirely.