"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" premiered recently and it seems that viewers are taking Neil deGrasse Tyson's advice when he said to question everything, and the first thing that viewers questioned was how Giordano Bruno was portrayed in the episode.

A self-confessed Giordano Bruno fangirl, Becky Ferreira, wrote a bunch of facts about Giordano Bruno and how Cosmos got some things about Giordano Bruno wrong.

While Becky Ferreira wrote a ton of stuff about Giordano Bruno, this article will focus on how the Cosmos tv show implied that Giordano Bruno was executed for his beliefs on the universe. As Becky Ferreira noted, it was Giordano Bruno's theological beliefs that put him in hot water over the Catholic church.

"The first is his legitimacy as a science martyr, an archetype he is commonly strong-armed into. Last night's episode not only reinforced that reputation, but relished in it, playing up the violent tensions between the Catholic Church and Renaissance scientists."

"But the truth is that Bruno's scientific theories weren't what got him killed. Sure, his refusal to recant his belief in a plurality of worlds contributed to his sentence. But it's important to note that the Catholic Church didn't even have an official position on the heliocentric universe in 1600, and support for it was not considered heresy during Bruno's trial."

"On top of that, his support for Copernican cosmology was the least heretical position he propagated. His opinions on theology were far more pyrotechnic. For example, Bruno had the balls to suggest that Satan was destined to be saved and redeemed by God. He didn't think Jesus was the son of God, but rather "an unusually skilled magician." He even publicly disputed Mary's virginity. The Church could let astronomical theories slide, but calling the Mother of God out on her sex life? There's no doubt that these were the ideas that landed Bruno on the stake."

Judging from this it would be pretty obvious that the church would find his views more heretical than his views on the universe and the Earth revolving around the sun.

You can read more of Becky Ferreira's article by clicking here.

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