(November 12, 2019 at 3:17 pm)TimOneill Wrote: 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.
It seems to me that you are overreacting. Thing is that Augustine was crazy and his books are insane ramblings, so considering Earth to be flat is something that you would expect from this kind of person. Like if some atheist said that Ray Comfort thinks world is flat, and then some other person "debunks" it by pointing to Comfort's writings, it wouldn't matter much because Ray Comfort would still be a very crazy and wrong person. So to even go further and claim how atheists are trying to delude Christians is more ridiculous than some sort of righting of the wrongs.
So from my perspective it's *meh*.
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"
