If you are saying that university/college instructors
have never openly claimed that Galileo is an atheist
or antiChristian, you are right.

But...read any university astronomy/astrophysics history
book and the writers [either prominent alumni or faculty
members] nearly always deliberately leave the impression
nd insinuation that Galileo's confrontation with the Vatican
officials was a clash between "Science and Religion";
between "empirical methods and Christian faith".

They, the academics, deliberately paint Christianity
as antiscience, using Galileo's trials as an example.
By implication, these academics imply that Galileo
was an nonchristian scientist challenging Christian
ides and cosmology.

Bunk.