Why Was Spinoza Excommunicated?

The classic of modern European philosophy Baruch Spinosa was born and got an education in a sefardsky community of Amsterdam, however in 1656 for radical criticism of a ravvinistichesky Judaism and its bogootkrovenny religion officially separated from the Jewish community.

Having ceased to be the Jew, Spinosa didn't address in any other religion and continued to scoop many philosophical ideas from the Jewish sources. Such "extra confessional" position (impossible in the Middle Ages), along with philosophical free-thinking, made him one of first "citizens" of New time.