Galileo Influence On Religion

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When Galileo Galilei proclaimed that the planet Earth revolved around the Sun, he was looked at like a sheer madman. His belief in heliocentricity blew the Catholic Church out of the water, as they thought this view Galileo bestowed upon the public was preposterous, leading them to order that he must turn himself in to the Holy Office and begin trial, as standard practice demanded that someone who was accused of such a thing as this must be ‘imprisoned and secluded during the trial.’ The Catholic Church deemed his beliefs heretical and outrageous, though this was the second time that Galileo expressed his distaste with the belief held by the Church’s orthodox members that the Earth is the immovable central point in the whole universe. The first