The Catholic church only accepted in 1822 that the Earth orbits the sun, so I guess nobody in the Church noticed the texts the guy was citing until then.
If you're ever totally bored and can't think of anything better to do with your time, Google for how fundamentalist Christians hand-wave away the Biblical description of Jahweh making the sun and moon stand still so that Joshua and his tribe could finish their genocidal slaughter of yet another bunch of non-believers.
Of course, they say, that isn't what _literally_ happened, because we now know that abruptly stopping the rotation of the Earth would have catastrophic global consequences. In order to resolve the contradiction between their belief that every word in the Bible is true and the fact it clearly describes something which is totally impossible, they indulge in the same sort of bogus reasoning that was used by Mediaeval clerics when they debated what happened to Jesus's foreskin and how many angels could fit on the head of a pin.
The most important thing about the Bible - and the thing that has allowed it to survive as a holy book for so long - is that it's possible to find justifications and explanations for any damn thing if you pick and choose your passages carefully and interpret them loosely enough. The Greeks knew the Earth was a sphere by around 500 BC, but I very much doubt if that memo was of much interest to the bloodthirsty fanatics responsible for the books of the Bible that were written after that. I would bet a significant sum that there is nowhere in the Bible where it states unequivocally that the Earth is a sphere.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are people who believe they've found hidden Biblical messages describing the DNA double helix, nuclear fission and how viruses work, as well as a prophecy that Kim Kardashian would become ridiculously popular for no reason whatsoever.
Wow dude. Hang on Im really fucking wasted right now.
Ive tried reading the bible, its pretty fucking boring and I dont like rules enough to read that many of them.
Im not even a flat earther. Im always going on about space travel being fake and thats not even a joke or anything that I believe that, but Im not into the whole biblical cosmology stuff. Flat earth hijacks the fact that NASA is a clear hoax, and it honestly bugs me that the CIA sends fake homophobic street preachers out to lump the entire argument in with flat earth anti abortion biblical literalist nutjobs. So I guess it was just a funny situation to have a preacher telling me stuff off his phone that proves the bible and counter argue his stuff with flat earth stuff when Im not even religious. He got super uncomfortable and left.
If you need to read your religion from a book you're doing something wrong. Bible code, flat earth society, and NASA are all the same level of credibility and theyre all fucking bullshit.
IIN that I like antagonising those religious preachers with satanism?
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The Catholic church only accepted in 1822 that the Earth orbits the sun, so I guess nobody in the Church noticed the texts the guy was citing until then.
If you're ever totally bored and can't think of anything better to do with your time, Google for how fundamentalist Christians hand-wave away the Biblical description of Jahweh making the sun and moon stand still so that Joshua and his tribe could finish their genocidal slaughter of yet another bunch of non-believers.
Of course, they say, that isn't what _literally_ happened, because we now know that abruptly stopping the rotation of the Earth would have catastrophic global consequences. In order to resolve the contradiction between their belief that every word in the Bible is true and the fact it clearly describes something which is totally impossible, they indulge in the same sort of bogus reasoning that was used by Mediaeval clerics when they debated what happened to Jesus's foreskin and how many angels could fit on the head of a pin.
The most important thing about the Bible - and the thing that has allowed it to survive as a holy book for so long - is that it's possible to find justifications and explanations for any damn thing if you pick and choose your passages carefully and interpret them loosely enough. The Greeks knew the Earth was a sphere by around 500 BC, but I very much doubt if that memo was of much interest to the bloodthirsty fanatics responsible for the books of the Bible that were written after that. I would bet a significant sum that there is nowhere in the Bible where it states unequivocally that the Earth is a sphere.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are people who believe they've found hidden Biblical messages describing the DNA double helix, nuclear fission and how viruses work, as well as a prophecy that Kim Kardashian would become ridiculously popular for no reason whatsoever.
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Wow dude. Hang on Im really fucking wasted right now.
Ive tried reading the bible, its pretty fucking boring and I dont like rules enough to read that many of them.
Im not even a flat earther. Im always going on about space travel being fake and thats not even a joke or anything that I believe that, but Im not into the whole biblical cosmology stuff. Flat earth hijacks the fact that NASA is a clear hoax, and it honestly bugs me that the CIA sends fake homophobic street preachers out to lump the entire argument in with flat earth anti abortion biblical literalist nutjobs. So I guess it was just a funny situation to have a preacher telling me stuff off his phone that proves the bible and counter argue his stuff with flat earth stuff when Im not even religious. He got super uncomfortable and left.
If you need to read your religion from a book you're doing something wrong. Bible code, flat earth society, and NASA are all the same level of credibility and theyre all fucking bullshit.
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You know, I think you smoke a little too much of everything.