(November 11, 2023 at 8:29 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Myth of the Flat Earth
Quote:The myth of the flat Earth, or the flat-Earth error, is a modern historical misconception that European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat.
Maybe but the article is full of errors, like it claims that the myth came from an ideological setting created by struggles over biological evolution, and then it claims that its proponent was Washington Irving, but Irving died in the year that "Origins of Species" was published. So if it came from anything it was from the rivalry between Catholics and Protestants who ridiculed Catholics as stupid (Irving was also a protestant).
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"
