The Catholic Church

Kylie Bare

Mr. Folts

World History

9 February 2018

    During the enlightenment many ideas were proposed to the Catholic Church stating that what the church was teaching the people was incorrect. The Catholic Church didn’t like being incorrect about what they were teaching the people because they believed everything in the Bible to be true.  In the time period of the enlightenment only the rich were educated and able to read the bible, most of the population were farmers, poor and uneducated. Whatever the church told them they believed. There came a time in the 1700’s when people started to question the church and attack religion.

    The Idea was that the Earth was the center of the universe. We now this is incorrect due to the man named Johannes Kepler, he was a mathematics teacher and an astronomer. Kepler had invented an improved version of the refracting telescope. He used this telescope to  observe the universe. Kepler discovered that the sun us the center of the universe. When the observation was brought to the church’s attention they denied Kepler wrong.

    When the church denied Kepler’s observation, it began the questioning era. Everyone began