Flat Earth and the Bible

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The Great Cat God declares that the Earth is a torus!! !!

Your responses don't help, either. In fact, this thread is fast devolving into a cesspool.

And I am not accepting any responsiblity for that.

Whether the flat-earth was mentioned is neither here nor there anyway, the fact is, there were people who believed in those things like sailing over the end of the world etc, and because anything other than the religious or church view was seen to be heresy, meant that if you put an opposing view across, you either got tortured, or ridiculed or even excommunicated. Similar to what has happened in this forum, sad to say. You only have to look at Galileo Galilei, for eg, when he proposed that things revolved around the sun instead of the earth, and also for postulating that the moons of Jupiter (Ganymede, Io, Callisto and Europa) revolved around Jupiter and not the earth. He was imprisoned, and forced to recant, and was only released in his latter years after he went blind. The church may have possibly gone after Da Vinci, not only for his theories and his artwork, but for his homosexuality as well. So obviously these people had to get their teachings from somewhere, and the church is more than likely the culprit, because they ran education, and therefore as I said, contrary opinion was heresy.

The flat earth idea is purely a fairytale.

Don't waste your time trying to argue, Sedaka. It's like talking to a brick wall.
And in some cases, you just get a mouthful of abuse.

Basic reading and comprehension you learn in primary school, at about grades 3 & 4 level. Writing at probably around the same time. Understanding is learnt through practise and study; all other things are incidental, and in some case irrelevant. Therefore, whether you can read the bible means nothing if you can't understand the meaning, and if the meaning is hidden, then only those that seek the meaning will get anything from it. And comparing the bible to War & Peace in that you read from cover-to-cover is irrational, because one is purely fiction, and one is meant to be a guide on how to live. It could also be fiction, but isn't that waht we are debating as well. Saying "no it isn't" every time someone says it may be is just like that Python argument sketch, and makes the ones proclaiming the bible to be factual out to be not only one-sided, but very dense in their thinking.

Oh, and blind arrogance is a thing picked up as one supposedly matures, unfortunately some younger people seem to have picked up this form of arrogance earlier, which is annoying.