Early Christian theologians genuinely argued that planetary orbits were driven by invisible angels pushing them around
Before gravity was invented, you had to get creative. Many early scholars accepted astrology but needed a Christian workaround for how it functioned, so they concluded that God simply assigned muscular angels to manually push the planets across the sky in perfect circles to send us cosmic messages.

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