The cutting edge in Geocentric theory.
After Galileo Galilei challenged the Church and its Roman Inquisition in 1632 by publishing his support of heliocentrism, he was forced to recant and confined to his home for the rest of his life. Nearly four hundred years later, the Earth is held by a vast majority to orbit the Sun, and it’s usually treated with no more criticism or controversy than it deserves.
But a growing sect of Catholics are speaking up and questioning the firmly-held belief. Robert Sungenis, who supposedly leads this movement, states:
“Heliocentrism becomes dangerous if it is being propped up as the true system when, in fact, it is a false system. . . False information leads to false ideas, and false ideas lead to illicit and immoral actions — thus the state of the world today. . . Prior to Galileo, the church was in full command of the world, and governments and academia were subservient to her.”
The concern is not so much that Heliocentrism is false, but rather, that the Church ought to be right even when it is wrong. Even the spokesman for the Vatican Observatory laughs at the thought, asking “Are they sincere, or is this a clever bit of theater?” Maybe a little bit of both; according to polls conducted by Gallup in the 1990s, 18% of Americans still believed that the Sun revolves around the Earth. [Source; Gallup source; Image]
