RE: What do invented saints tell us about Christianity?
November 12, 2019 at 3:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2019 at 4:06 pm by TimOneill.)
(November 12, 2019 at 2:07 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(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?
Jesus Christ. What "Aron Ra" said was wrong. He didn't "lean on" any "credible scholar" - he simply misinterpreted Augustine's comments on the Antipodes, because he's clueless. And the people you mention "make mistakes" because they don't know what they're talking about, but when they honk their ignorance to thousands of uncritical readers and viewers - we have a problem.
Further, it's not like the nonsense by "Aron Ra" about Augustine was his only "mistake". Every single thing he claims about history in that video is ... wrong. All of it. Why? (i) He's clueless about history and (ii) he has a massive ideological bias that means he only "researches" history by reading stuff by other clueless bigots until he finds something that fits his prejudices. He's an idiot.