This is the key issue. Is it not?
And what does that wall of text have to do with the shape of the earth?
The Heliocentric Earth was never decided or dictated by any government decree. If you think otherwise, prove it!
"The Church" did try to
suppress the Heliocentric ideas.
Galileo affair
The Galileo affair was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610,[1] culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei).
From Galileo affair
The present Heliocentric Globe is not a new invention and was not introduced by NASA or any modern government.
Go and read a bit of history on the development of the current earth model.
Look up the work of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543), Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) and Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) and many others, including from India and Persia in the first millenia.
Kepler believed in a "modified" Geostationary Globe, but his careful measurements were instrumental in Kepler's work.
Their results of the work of these people set the basis of the current understanding of the Heliocentric Globe.
You can claim no such solid foundation for the flat earth model,
in fact, you do not even have a single workable flat earth model.
Now, if you think that the earth is flat, ague that on the evidence.