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No, I promise you it was just accepted that the earth was flat. The first to be credited with the idea that the earth is round is Aristotle around 300 b.c. Many still thought Columbus would literally fall off the edge of the earth when he sailed for the new world over 1000 years later.

Nope. Aristotle’s views on a spherical earth were mainstream in Ancient Greece. Sorry if that hurts your agenda and feelings. But by all means, please send me links to reputable papers which support your claims that both his ideas were wildly novel in his time AND he was persecuted by the ‘government’ for them. None of that is true. What in the absolute frick does anything related to Columbus have to do with your argument about Aristotle?

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History does not seem to be your forte

You’re just making up shite to suit an agenda. I’m fairly certain “reading about history” to you is scrolling on instagram or something and finding pages where complex events are broken down into a simple image that you can follow.

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For much of human history they have been one in the same.

Church and state have overlapped greatly at various times in history. But they are not the same and they weren’t the same in your examples, where the problem was clearly with the church (at least in the Copernicus example).

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Don’t be a semantic bitch.

Haha. You want to just be able to lie and then cry about semantics when you get called out for being objectively wrong. Don’t be an ignorant dumbass. We have WAY too many of those on this board.