Do you think catholic Church would accept Galileo defense?

The play depicts the complexity of the Roman Catholic Church. It has a monopoly on the Italian government and influences policy as well as the lives of ordinary people. In particular the Inquisition, using the name of God as an excuse for tortures and murdering, tries to keep power in the church's hands and out of the hands of the people. Religion, as an institution, is portrayed as a corrupt force in Italy, a system of governance that takes the power and autonomy away from the people and forces them to accept a more deterministic fate.

While religious institutions are depicted as oppressive and selectively enlightened in the play, Galileo is not actively anti-religious. For him, the pursuit of science is a religious act in itself. By investigating how the world works, he seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe: not so he can believe less in God, but so that he can become more enlightened. His work is misinterpreted by his contemporaries as heretical and anti-religious because of their social implications, but his devotion to science, to doubt, and to proof, is all part of his own particular relation to spiritual existence.