On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Phil Thayer wrote:
I'm sure his arrest was merely "until he repented of his heresy" and quite justified. The heresy, of course, has little to do with the astronomy and rather was his add-on claim that his findings proved Holy Scripture to be errant.
Heresy is all relative based on a persons religion. For example, if you are a believer that the world is round and orbits around the earth, then you are a heretic in the Muslim world.
That is only true to a limited extent. You omit to consider that Islam is false. When taken into consideration that only one religion is in fact true, you will realize that heresy, as well as morality and such, as quite objective.