As the church essentially ran Europe, this opposing declaration is easily deemed as challenging both the church and God, which in turn is your nation. The narrow-minded views of many monarchies and the church in that time period had no ear for altering their universal assumptions.
Roadblocks and doubters aside, brave actions throughout many other great philosophers, such as Martin Luther who, like Galileo, was harshly punished for their "treason" against the church. .
Many of the great men who helped change Europe can certainly be seen as heroic for their actions. In many examples individuals scarified their well-being for the knowledge they wished to spread to the world. "The Making of the West: A Concise History" describes Galileo's endeavor. Galileo announced his discoveries about the solar system and the earth's movement. The Catholic church forced his hand in taking back his statement or face torture and death. Even after taking his statement back, he was still forced to house arrest for his remaining life. 2 This shows the strong level of power that the church had in censorship and why they could continue to control their biblical contexts that were not applicable to the natural world. The religious struggle greatly impacted historically famous monk. .
Martin Luther's opinions transcended into a new religion and split the most dominant religion in Europe. His credit seemingly wasn't due at the time of his epiphany alike others. Eventually, he was ironically excommunicated for the beliefs, "He who through faith is righteous shall live."3 This quote embodies the intentions of Martin Luther, he wanted to prove that salvation is sought through being a good Christian and believing in God. Contrary the church's interpretation that advised followers into taxation's to get into heaven. As themes clearly connect multiple movements and their affiliates in their influential discoveries, the Scientific Revolution still reins the most influential movement on European soil.