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The Church Says The Earth Is Flat (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
Mar 2022
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Skittles
(158,153 posts)1. Obama nails it
if you want to believe in nonsense, so be it. But do NOT force it on the rest of us.
Collimator
(1,844 posts)2. Just thinking about Hobby Lobby
And their refusal to pay for insurance plans that would provide contraceptives to their employees.
If they--or some other big company--is owned by Jehovah's Witnesses, could they refuse to fund insurance plans that pay for blood transfusions?
keithbvadu2
(39,829 posts)3. Religious freedom for the right kind?
muriel_volestrangler
(102,360 posts)4. To nitpick: the Magellan 'quotation' is false
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan
and the belief in a flat earth in the Christian church (ie among those educated enough to leave a written record) had died out by the 6th century or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Early_Christian_Church
So we see, for example, Bede, a prominent English cleric in the 8th century, saying the Earth is a globe: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/05/the-earth-is-in-fact-round.html
and the belief in a flat earth in the Christian church (ie among those educated enough to leave a written record) had died out by the 6th century or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Early_Christian_Church
So we see, for example, Bede, a prominent English cleric in the 8th century, saying the Earth is a globe: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/05/the-earth-is-in-fact-round.html