ManusJustus said:
The Bible says the Earth was flat, an idea the Hebrews borrowed from the earliest Babylonian myths. The Catholic Church pushed this idea because of references Jesus made about a flat Earth, which is why people assume all ancients though this. To the contrary, the ancients had known for a long time that the Earth was round from the shadow it cast on the moon and the way sailors see objects on the horizon. Eratosthenes even measured the diameter of the Earth centuries before Jesus was born. |
No... that's not why people think the earth was flat. As has already been mentioned to you... like many times before, your mistranslating that section of the bible.
The Catholic Chruch didn't think the earth was flat.
People thought the anicents thought the earth was flat because of a book of fiction, "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" written by Washington Irving. Was one of the most popular books of the 1800's.
Washington Irving is actually known for a lot of the misconceptions people hold... he wrote quite a few historical pieces that were at least partially fiction like that including people like George Washington and Muhhamad.
