The religious point of view:
"I do not understand anything about the universe, and I am to lazy to learn more about it, so I will just assume that some god controls it, and leave my fate in this authority, for which I have no proof exists, but the action of my wishing it to be so . . . is sufficient to make it so. And I am sanctioned by god to destroy anyone or anything that does not conform to that world view."
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Copernicus, who considered the sun to be the center of the universe as opposed to the religious belief that the earth was the center of the universe, in his time waited until he was near death to publish his work, because he knew well the danger involved in promulgating ideas that might upset the insane parasites who did everything they could to hold on to power, . . . . the truth be damned . . . . it was a threat to their parasitic behavior, and therefore, they endeavored vigorously to suppress it.
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They would prefer to kill the messenger who brings out any ideas that could possibly prevent these religious parasites from lining their pockets with the proceeds from the poor ignorant sheep whom they deceive. Parasitic behavior is not restricted to just the lower-level life forms in the natural environment. Kill the messenger who might actually help civilization progress . . . .
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They insisted that EARTH was immobile, and the sun and the planets rotated around the earth. After all, GOD created the earth specifically for man! For centuries this point of view flourished, while at the same time people like Giordano Bruno, an Italian scientist who suggested that space might have no boundaries and that the solar system might be one of many such systems in the universe. (Something we know now to be true.) Bruno also speculated that there were infinite worlds in the universe with intelligent life, some that may be superior to our own . . . . but soon the Inquisition got word of his teachings, and he was tried and condemned for his "heretical beliefs" and burned at the stake in 1600 . . . . . . .
Christian benevolence . . .
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The same parasites exist today, and they would be happy to institute the very same standards of yesterday, and willfully drag civilization back hundreds of years to a time when those who threaten their parasitic ways can be tried, condemned, and murdered. They already murder people in other countries whose ideology or culture does not happen to line up with theirs, and demonize any country that does not bow in reverence to their dogma . . . . it is but one step further to do the same within the country.