Today, 406 years ago, Giordano Bruno was burned for heresy. While some of the charges against him were for believing things like the Copernican theory, the existence of multiple worlds, atoms, and solar systems, and an infinite universe, other charges were purely religious - that Bruno denied the divinity of Christ, for instance, and transubstantiation, and accepted the transmigration of souls.
Thank goodness, these days (in the West at any rate) the Church - no church - can kill you because you don't agree with them any longer. On any topic, provable, rational - or not.
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