“But, to affirm that the Sun is really fixed in the center of the heavens and the Earth revolves very swiftly around the Sun is a dangerous thing, not only irritating theologians and philosophers, but injuring our holy faith and making the sacred scripture false.Freedom of belief is pernicious, It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.”
Cardinal Bellarmine
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