Comments by "Philip Rayment" (@PJRayment) on "Professor Dave Explains" channel.

"... watch a ship go over the horizon with a pair of binoculars." Nope. They have an explanation for that. As they do for most things. The problem is that most of the arguments against their views cannot be easily shown to be true without relying on them accepting someone as authoritative. The nice thing about this aeroplane argument is that the authoritativeness of the flight schedules by multiple airlines who clearly wouldn't fly further than than have to cannot readily be argued against.
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"I asked how he got the idea the earth was flat. Him: "The Bible says so". " I'd ask him to show you where. Because it doesn't say that. He'd probably point you to something like a reference to the four corners of the earth, which is of course a figure of speech we are still happy to use. "I believe the Bible and other religious writings can be weaponized as excuses to believe in lies, like flat earth." As can non-religious writings. "Just imagine how this affects other arguments like vaccination or abortion." Of course the Bible can be used to show that abortion—the deliberate killing of an innocent human being—is wrong.
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@sourand jaded "nope. just happened to read every ... bit of it rather than select the bits that i wanted to read." So you also read the bits where God's people did pray in public without that being a bad thing? Perhaps you were taking it out of context after all. Or perhaps you are being selective about it. And where does it say in Matthew that you shouldn't go to church?
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@cookieelement3467 Another fun fact. The idea that the church in medieval times thought the earth was flat was an atheist invention designed to make Christians look silly.
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