Creepy Condescending Wonka

And Newton, Copernicus, Planck, Kepler, Boyle, Faraday, Pasteur, Kelvin, Rontgen, Heisenberg, and on and on.

Probably not, but since religious people included Galileo himself the point still stands.

Actually Galileo made fun of a pope, and that's what started his troubles. It had nothing to do with religiin.

Oh, thanks for letting me know.

Yeah, he wrote a scientific story where he had a conversation with the pope about it, but he described the pope as asking stupid questions and being generally ignorant. The corrupt Catholic Church couldn't have that so they trumped up some charges and put him away.