I'd be the guy that thought it was round and I'd want to tell everyone I met. Here's my question: Would you allow the leaders of your religion burn me at the stake, put me in a dark cell for the rest of my life, or cut my head off?
2006-12-19 08:53:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. I would save you. The Bible says in Isaiah 40, "It is GOD who sits above the circle of the earth."
Nowhere does the Bible says that the earth is flat, it says that it is round.
2006-12-19 08:56:24 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The following little piece springs to mind, which you might find interesting in this context: The Celestial Teapot, was an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, intended to refute the idea that the burden of proof lies upon the sceptic to disprove unfalsifiable claims of religions. In 1952, Russell wrote: If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time. We still have to battle the delusions that large parts of humanity cling to. BUT your question has nothing to do with democracy. People voting only expresses their opinion, it does not express facts. They can not vote on weather the earth is flat, they can only vote for a person or not!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2016-03-29 00:36:40 · answer #2 · answered by Elaine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put you in a dark cell for the rest of your life.
2006-12-19 08:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1% of the world's population is a very large amount of people. There would be a lot of stakes, guillotines, and prisons needed were the flat-worlders to kill or lock us all up. I bet they would try though...
2006-12-19 09:04:48 · answer #4 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually it was the scientific community that followed aristotles theory that the earth was the center of the universe, not the church. the church was "suckered" into aristotles theory or risk humiliation. today creationists are mocked in the same way that galileo was ridiculed by the mass community>
2006-12-19 08:58:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's perty stupid to even think that the earth is flat. if you ever live by the beach or mountains you can tell the earth is round. Can't believe religion keeps people stupid.
2006-12-19 08:58:28 · answer #6 · answered by G Constant 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well why not? Americans let their assanine government tell the people it represents that we have to be war mongers around the world!
2006-12-19 08:56:27 · answer #7 · answered by jonathan x 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd let them do that thing with the rat in the basket on your stomach with the hot coals on top. The rat digs into you.
2006-12-19 08:55:21 · answer #8 · answered by Atlas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quran says it:
Quran 20:53 "he (allah) who has, made for you the earth like a carpet spread out" http://www.usc.edu/dept/msa/quran/020.qmt.html#020.053
2006-12-19 08:55:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because of cult bible nonsense, the bible believers used to think the world was flat.
read history. put the ridiculous bible down, and read real history.
2006-12-19 08:56:01 · answer #10 · answered by Jeebus is my Rectum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋