"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." Galileo Galilei--Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)

What was the result of scientists like Galileo making claims like the one seen above to the Grand Duchess Christina?

O They were tried for heresy and excommunicated if they refused to recant.

They were quickly published and their beliefs became official Church doctrine.

They wereIcelebrated by the Catholic Church.

O They were exiled to the New World.

the catholic church withhold people's access to the bible during the middle ages.

people could go to church and listen to the teachings, but it was absolutely forbidden to own and/or read the books of both the old and new testaments. it was also prohibited to translate the books (which where originally in biblical hebrew) to any other language.

this was done so the church could remain in control of what their teachings were and to enhance their importance and power, while also being able to judge people's actions through information that was unavailable for the general public.

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live

first representative government in british america called virginia assembly