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>because what they saw was not what the church had preached
Akshully it was because it was against what Aristotle deduced. The philosophers who refused to look through the telescope and see the mountains on the moon were fanatical Aristotelians, athiests in private (Aristotle not believing in the immortality of the soul, a Platonic and Christian position,) who had deduced that the moon, and all heavenly bodies, were perfect spheres.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Cremonini_(philosopher)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodovico_delle_Colombe

There were many factions in the late renaissance and early reformation. The primary faction Galileo ran against were the revived school of Neo-Aristotelians, who being revived by the renewal of Greek philosophy in the renaissance, tried to use the authority of counter-reformation Catholicism to enforce an Aristotelians orthodoxy. Not to say Catholicism wasn't backward and wrong, but the prime movers were their own faction with their own sacred cause: defending Aristotelian physics and philosophy.