Religion should not be science
Published Date:
26 September 2008
IN response to David Wright's letter (September 19) regarding whether Jesus showed the devil all the kingdoms of the world from a high mountain or vice versa.
The essential point remains that to do so you'd need an earth that was flat and a tad smaller than the one we've got.
The 'Circle of the Earth' (Isaiah, Ch 40), much quoted by fundamentalists, could mean a disc. Anyway, Revelation Ch 7 talks of the 'four corners of the earth' so you can take your pick.
I don't know if there was a reversion to flat-earthism in the dark ages as Mr Wright claims – some say Washington Irving's writings on Columbus perpetuated this misconception – but the Flat Earth Society has always used the Bible to bolster its arguments.
Treating the Bible as a science book leads to such absurdities.
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