He denied the virginity of Mary, the sanctity of Jesus-Christ, the Trinity, the eternal damnation, and so on. He was not killed because of his scientific writings but because of the ideas he had and claimed out loud, and these ideas were mainly "Catholicism is a huge pile of bullshit". Not saying that it is an excuse (NOT AT ALL), but he was not a "martyr for science". And even if he had been, he would not have been the first.
Huh. Brain decided to make parallels: Does that make Eve Christianity's Prometheus?
I mean - steals knowledge from the Godhead for mankind to use, gets painful, ostensibly permanent punishment? Cause the Serpent may have talked her into it, but he ain't the one picked the fruit.
Catholics generally used to believe that it literally transformed into the body of Christ and I know many Protestants were killed in England for disagreeing with this. Not sure what Catholics believe now though.
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We still believe it. Just not how they used to back in the day
I mean - steals knowledge from the Godhead for mankind to use, gets painful, ostensibly permanent punishment? Cause the Serpent may have talked her into it, but he ain't the one picked the fruit.