(November 12, 2019 at 7:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(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*.
Whatever you and I might think about his religious beliefs, there is no evidence he was "crazy", his writings are coherent and consistent and he was clearly highly intelligent.
And that's all beside the point - what that "Aron Ra" person said about them was wrong. End of story. I think I've wasted enough of my time on you, but thanks for giving me yet another example of a "rationalist" who can't sustain a coherent argument because of irrational emotionalism. People like you are an embarrassment to the rest of us.