(June 21, 2022 at 11:53 am)Dragonset Wrote: The second image is a product of the dark ages theology based upon a Latin mistranslation, the belief, of that time, that there was a literal metallic dome surrounding Earth and the subsequent inclusion of images and misinterpretation in Biblical encyclopedias of that period. It would be like me showing you a picture of a flat earth resting on a turtle resting on four elephants and comparing that to modern science for you to defend. C'mon.
Bible was written in the dark ages by people who didn't know where the sun went at night. Seriously, today a 9 year old child knows more about cosmology than the writers of the Bible.
When it comes to translations, I wonder why then the dumbest people get to translate Bible since they all have firmament, foundations of Earth, that the stars will fall down, etc.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
