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It Is Surely Harmful To Souls To Make It A Heresy To Believe What Is Proved.

Scripture Is A Book About Going To Heaven. It's Not A Book About How The Heavens Go.

I Wish, My Dear Kepler, That We Could Have A Good Laugh Together At The Extraordinary Stupidity Of The Mob. What Do You Think Of The Foremost Philosophers Of This University? In Spite Of My Oft-repeated Efforts And Invitations, They Have Refused, With The Obstinacy Of A Glutted Adder, To Look At The Planets Or The Moon Or My Glass [telescope].

They Know That It Is Human Nature To Take Up Causes Whereby A Man May Oppress His Neighbor, No Matter How Unjustly. ... Hence They Have Had No Trouble In Finding Men Who Would Preach The Damnability And Heresy Of The New Doctrine From The Very Pulpit.

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.