• @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    No, one of their core arguments is that language in the bible heavily implies that the earth is flat. Nevermind that the bible is a collection of stories from uneducated iron-age fanatics…

    • @Anticorp
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      71 year ago

      There’s nothing in the Bible that implies the earth is flat… but most people who use the Bible to excuse their behavior don’t actually read it, so it’s not wild to hear they think the Bible is the basis for their beliefs.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament

        Isaiah 11:12 - And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

        Ezekiel 7:2 - Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

        There is actually plenty of language in the bible that implies a flat earth. I found these examples with 5 minutes of searching.

        • @Anticorp
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          91 year ago

          Four corners of the earth usually refers to the cardinal directions, north, east, south, west. It doesn’t mean there are actual corners at the edge of a plane.

        • @ammonium
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          21 year ago

          I thought flat earthers claim the earth is a disc (which has no corners)?

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      1 year ago

      Wow, TIL, but it made more sense before I learnt of this fact

      Edit: to be clear, it’s not that I believe Earth to be flat, it’s that this “argument” makes even less sense than an assumption that flat earth was just a trolling