Galileo's work came into conflict with the Church because he proposed that the Earth actually rotates around the Sun, instead of the Earth being the center of the universe, which is what the Church held. It was "resolved" when the Church sentenced him to life in prison. <span />
A large portion of Americans thought that this was not right to be sending over our own people to a place halfway across the globe, to a issue that would not affect us in the the near future. And that this was no ordinary war fought in large open plains. No it was fought in the woods and more. And then american people were dying for a cause that didn't concern them?
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A.) Comparative Mythologists