So I have a born again christian family member in their mid twenties who stated with complete confidence that there is a dome in the sky called the firmament and beyond it is where heaven is. She believes space doesn’t exist and rockets just blow up because the bible said so. She is not the brightest and normally I would let this sort of nonsense go but I work in aerospace and have multiple pieces of hardware in space so she is either calling me ignorant or a malicious agent for the devil purposely lying for her so I got pretty annoyed. I can’t find anything about this dome in a google search about religion and I suspect she ended up on a flat-earth YouTube channel that twisted a line in the bible to fit their beliefs and didn’t actually get it from her church. I know its probably hopeless to help her understand how dumb and frankly insulting this belief is but I can possibly talk some reason if I understand the source.
Are there any major or minor religions, christian or other that believe space is a lie and only god is outside our atmosphere?
I yeah, this:
could be a cool premise for world building. Instead of ‘they live in caves’ they just live below the nominal ‘surface’
actually the world building I’d like to see in a fantasy book is day/night elves (and sundry other creatures) on a planet where the axial tilt is 90 degrees.
It really is a great premise for fiction, especially if you replace the pillars with 4 elephants and a turtle.
So do we live directly on top of the brown molar in this image?
Yup, pretty much.