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...In your earlier post, you said Galileo was convicted of "heresy"...that is patently untrue...any number of sources will refute that assertion...pick any one you like.

...You said he was "hauled off and "imprisoned"...he was taken to a guarded luxury residence, and given a servant...his own close friend spoke of his good care...

Consider these other facts:

1. Neither Galileo, nor any other scientist, was put to death by the medieval Church for there scientific views.

2. The Catholic authorities of Galileo’s day had little trouble with heliocentrism per se. Many of the leading Catholic scientists were actually Copernicans. Copernicus’s treatise on heliocentrism had been in print for seventy years prior to Galileo’s conflict with the Church.

3. Galileo remained a devout and loyal Catholic until the end of his life.

4. Most important, the conflict between Galileo and the Church took place in the context of the Protestant Reformation, a context that is almost always omitted from popular accounts of Galileo’s trial. The key issue in this conflict was not heliocentrism per se, but the authority of the individual believer to interpret Scripture anyway they liked. Galileo’s argument that scientists should interpret the Bible to conform to their scientific views was close to Luther’s view that the believer should be his own interpreter of Scripture. It was Lutheranism, not heliocentrism, that alarmed the Church leaders.

Galileo was caught up in a larger, theological and ecclesiastical controversy. He was not simply a truth-seeking scientists going up against a bigoted Establishment.

And let's not forget Galileo taught AS FACT that the Sun WAS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE...that's still bullshit as far as I know...

...I will grant you that I cannot currently produce the name of Protestants on record as wanting Galileo executed...However, it is widely known that Luther, Calvin, and Wittenberg U thought Copernicus was full of shit and refused to teach heliocentrism...got plenty of references there if you need them...and given the
Protestant proclivity for burning "witches" at the stake for a variety of reasons, it is more of a stretch to suggest nobody wanted Galileo fried as well?...But give yerself a "GOTCHA" if you like...just don't ignore you own misstatement, particularly on the heresy conviction...and don't ignore the bigger picture...

It's a complicated history with a lot of moving parts...Urban and Galileo both had asshole traits...
I'm all for de-mythologizing BOTH sides...Cheers!