Recently, scientists have found an unpublished article by Winston Churchill. In it, he talks about exoplanets and the high probability of the appearance of living beings in other star systems.The politician, as well as current scientists, relied on the "Copernicus principle", according to which it is difficult to believe that in the Universe people are the only intelligent beings, given its size. As Churchill wrote almost 80 years ago, the main condition for the emergence of multicellular life is the presence of water.But if 80 years ago the scientifically based belief in aliens could cause admiration, then 400 years ago it led to a fire.In February 1600, Giordano Bruno was executed. Someone considers him a Martyr of science, who died for his loyalty to the new astronomy of Copernicus, someone-a magician and a pagan, far from rational thinking. But what exactly was Giordano Bruno burned for?Let's understand.Only in 1925, the prefect of the Secret archives of the Vatican found out that 37 years ago they found Bruno's Inquisition case, but then Pope Leo the Thirteenth ordered the case to be handed over to him personally and hid the documents. It took another 15 years to find the files, and it was only during world war II that the case was published. Then for the first time it became clear that the biggest "heresy" Bruno was the idea of many inhabited worlds in the Universe.But what is this idea and why is the Catholic Church so hostile to it?The existence of an infinite number of worlds allowed even Democritus and Epicurus-many lands, moons and suns. The heroes of Plutarch's dialogue "on the face visible on the disk of the moon" argued whether there are plants, trees and animals on the moon or whether it represents the afterlife, where the souls of people find peace after death (just as their bodies are buried on Earth). However, Cicero and Pliny among others considered this nonsense. They were joined by the early fathers of the Church, for whom the multitude of worlds was not an abstract philosophical truth, but an attribute of pagan beliefs — for example, the doctrine of the transmigration of souls. Thus, the Pythagoreans taught that the souls of people come from the milky Way, and animals-from the stars.A little later, the debate about the uniqueness of the world, that is, the Earth, or a plurality of worlds flared up with renewed vigor. Athanasius of Alexandria insisted that the world is one because God is one. To think otherwise was impious, absurd, and dishonorable, but not yet heretical. The trouble happened because of the great theologian Origen, part of whose thoughts the Church rejected-just thoughts about the transmigration of souls. And the final formulation was given by Isidore of Seville, who listed the main heresies in his encyclopedia. At the end of the list of Christian heresies, before the pagan ones, he remarked: "there Are other heresies which have no founder and no recognized name... some think that the souls of men fall into demons or animals; some argue about the state of the world; some believe that the number of worlds is infinite."The position of the Church in the Middle ages is seen in the example of the churchman Rupert of Deutz. Praising God for having created a world full of beautiful beings, he writes: "perish the epicurean heretics who speak of many worlds, and all who lie about the passing of the souls of the dead into other bodies." The idea of multiple worlds was rejected by Thomas Aquinas, the chief theologian of the Latin middle Ages. Yes, the power of God is unlimited, and, therefore, he can create an infinite number of worlds. Giordano Bruno would then resort to this argument.But Thomas continues:"But it was said: the World through Him began to be, where the world is spoken of in the singular, as if there were only one world.And therefore the multiplicity of worlds could be admitted only by those who regarded as the cause of the world not some ordering wisdom, but chance: for example, Democritus, who argued that this world, as well as an infinite number of other worlds, arose as a result of a random combination of atoms."After the emergence of the index of forbidden books and the system of courts of the Inquisition, the heresy of many worlds received its serial number (77 on the list of Augustine). In the new code of ecclesiastical law (1582), created by Pope Gregory XIII, there is a special paragraph: "there Are other heresies, unnamed, among which ... the belief in an infinite number of worlds." The same wording found its way into the manual for inquisitors.__Subscribe to sedition in social networks:VC https://vk.com/kramolainfoOK https://ok.ru/kramolainfoTelegram https://t-do.ru/kramola_infoInstagram https://www.instagram.com/kramola_info/The website http://www.kramola.info#sedition #Giordano #Bruno