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he was reckless in how he addressed authorityI think that might border on victim blaming. The Church had the power to persecute intellectuals who they felt were running too far, but that doesn't mean they had any rightful authority. If an illegitimate power is running around your society trying to get people to cow down to it, anyone who stands up to them by failing to cow down appropriately should be described as "heroic" moreso than "reckless." If nobody had ever stood up to the illegitimate authority, they would still be running things and imprisoning people for insulting them today. We are in great debt to everyone who was reckless in 1610.