(November 12, 2019 at 1:17 pm)TimOneill Wrote: But if you want to defend the idea that Augustine was a flat earther, I've given you the passages in question. Go right ahead. Let's see if you somehow know better than the leading experts in the field. This should be amusing to watch ...
That's not the point. Point is what Aron Ra said, now he maybe made a mistake by leaning on a credible scholar, but is that your claim that these "new atheists" like Carl Sagan, Neil Tyson, Aron Ra and you name it, are deliberately spreading disinformations? Or that they sometimes make a mistake?
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"