But that did not make him very popular. His theories ruffled the church and they did not want to be ruffled.
He was a martyr of science.
Inhuman religious people killed him. And I find it funny that as late as 1942 the RC church still defended their actions as "defending freedom."
According to that wikipedia page, he slandered our Blessed Mother. They pretty much had to kill him.
Indeed, cannibalism of the dead is a cherished custom in Scotland. When a Scottish boy's coming of age is celebrated (a ceremony known as the Scot Mitzvah) he is forced to consume his own great-grandfather, bones and all, in just 24 hours, or else the local Shaman will hit him on the head with a magical stick that stops him from ever becoming an adult.
