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What Was the Primary Reason Behind the Persecution of the Italian

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What was the primary reason behind the persecution of the Italian physicist Galileo Galilei?


A) Galileo had propagated the evolutionary theory that contradicted the teachings of the Church.
B) Galileo had propagated the theory that the earth rotates around the sun that contradicted the Church's view of the heavens as unchanging.
C) Galileo had propagated the theory that man has originated from apes,which rejected the Churches' idea that God created man.
D) Galileo had supported and encouraged the concept of homosexuality that was labeled as a sin by the Church.
E) Galileo was a pagan and preached the idea that the sun was the most powerful force in the universe and everything else revolved around the sun.

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