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Robert Bellarmine’s Questionable Quotation
I have once again come across this quotation purportedly from Cardinal Robert Bellarmine:
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
—Cardinal Robert Bellarmine / Trial of Galileo / 1615 (???)
I searched Google and found plenty of references to the quotation all over the internet, but it always appears either without attribution, or with just a date (1615), or with the mistaken claim that it was said “at the trial” of Galileo. I am wondering if anyone knows the exact source for this quotation, because there is something clearly wrong to me with it.
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"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
—Cardinal Robert Bellarmine / Trial of Galileo / 1615 (???)
I searched Google and found plenty of references to the quotation all over the internet, but it always appears either without attribution, or with just a date (1615), or with the mistaken claim that it was said “at the trial” of Galileo. I am wondering if anyone knows the exact source for this quotation, because there is something clearly wrong to me with it.
Read more at anatheist.net
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