RE: The shape of Earth
August 25, 2022 at 6:27 am
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2022 at 8:00 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 18, 2022 at 8:21 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: And, who knows, maybe you could see Mt. Everest from extreme distances, assuming there are no obstructions. Why not try pointing a high-powered laser at it?
Why?! Because Mount Everest is way below the horizon on the other side of the world. But if the Earth was flat then you could see Mount Everest (along with other highest mountains) from any point on Earth topping everything else. At nights you could see Mount Everest glowing if it was in a different time zone because it would be dark where you are but Sun would shine over Mount Everest, so you could see it in the sky.
And even if there was fog you could see Mount Everest with an infrared camera and radar.
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"