The Persecution of Galileo The Earth is firmly fixed; it shall not be moved. ~Bible - Psalms 104:5 To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. ~Cardinal Bellarmine, 17th Century Church Master Collegio Romano, who imprisoned and tortured Galileo for his astronomical works, during the trial of Galileo. “But to want to affirm that the sun really is fixed in the center of the heavens and only revolves around itself without traveling from east to west, and that the earth is situated in the third sphere and revolves with great speed around the sun, is a very dangerous thing, not only by irritating all the philosophers and scholastic theologians, but also by injuring our holy faith and rendering the Holy Scriptures false. ~Cardinal Robert Bellarmine: Letter on Galileos Theories, 1615 It would be just as heretical to deny that Abraham had two sons and Jacob twelve, as it would be to deny the virgin birth of Christ, for both are declared by the Holy Ghost through the mouths of the prophets and apostles. ~Cardinal Robert Bellarmine: Letter on Galileos Theories, 1615 The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. ~Catholic Churchs decision against Galileo Galilei Freedom of belief is pernicious, It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.” ~Cardinal Robert Bellarmine Sources: fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1615bellarmine-letter.asp freethought.mbdojo/galileo.html
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