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What two reasons to the church give for declaring Galileo is a heretic
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What two reasons to the church give for declaring Galileo is a heretic

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His writings, which rejected the traditional geocentric (earth at the center of the universe) model that was widely believed at the time, were generally frowned upon by the church because heliocentrism went against some passages in the Bible.
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