Neville cites Galileo's forced recantation before the Church -- kneeling to confess that the earth was not the center of the universe, though he knew otherwise -- as an example of denying an inward truth under threat of torture without it erasing the truth of one's actual experience. He says he would do the same: deny under torture the reality of his own experienced birth of Christ while knowing, in the depth of his soul, that it is a fact.