(November 12, 2019 at 6:13 am)TimOneill Wrote:(November 12, 2019 at 6:01 am)Belacqua Wrote: Thank you for joining the discussion here. I've been amazed by the reactions people have had to your web site -- which I find very useful.
I ceased being amazed a long time ago - people don't like having their myths debunked. Unfortunately that goes for many so-called rationalists as it does for Christians. This is why I tend to annoy dogmatic ideologues on both sides. So here was have someone who thinks that by uncritically accepting a quote he found on Wiki, he's shown that I'm "completely wrong". Unfortunately the "Augustine scholar" in question was a philosophy professor. Which means he was pretty good at assessing, say, Augustine's use of Platonism but not so good at working out where he fitted in with Greco-Roman science. For that we need to turn to specialists in that field. Like Lindberg. Augustine was not a flat earther, as informed reading of his work shows.
Cherry picking Wikipedia is a step up for that guy.
The other day he offered an unsourced 19-second video clip as proof that before the 19th century, all sentences in the Bible could only be interpreted literally. And of course insulted me for claiming otherwise.
https://atheistforums.org/thread-59623-p...pid1938902
I doubt you'll have much luck with him, but some others might appreciate a careful reading.
