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<blockquote data-quote="The Liturgist" data-source="post: 77369853" data-attributes="member: 424341"><p>I’m not trying to change the mind of Flat Earthers, rather, I am trying to make sure it is understood by non-Christian members such as yourself that the vast majority of Christians do not believe that. Do we believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate and rose from the dead? Absolutely. But we don’t believe the world is flat. Indeed I know of no denomination that actually teaches that.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, Muhammed actually did teach the world was flat. Indeed there is a Hadith in which he claimed that ships passing over the horizon was an optical illusion. And then there is the wacky bit in the Quran where Alexander the Great travels to the far west and finds the sun in its resting place, and if I recall he has a conversation with it. Fortunately for the safety of passengers on airlines like Emirates, Etihad and Qatar, most Muslims are somehow able to ignore those texts, although perhaps they do explain why despite the immense skill that Arabic navigators and shipbuilders existed, it was Christopher Columbus, using a ship design that originated in the Middle East, who sailed across the Atlantic, in the hopes of finding a shorter route to India. For the Muslims this possibility might not have occurred to them despite the fact they clearly had the technology (especially given that Leif Ericsson was able to do it in the harsh North Atlantic using Viking longboats which were vastly inferior to Arab sailing vessels).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Liturgist, post: 77369853, member: 424341"] I’m not trying to change the mind of Flat Earthers, rather, I am trying to make sure it is understood by non-Christian members such as yourself that the vast majority of Christians do not believe that. Do we believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate and rose from the dead? Absolutely. But we don’t believe the world is flat. Indeed I know of no denomination that actually teaches that. On the other hand, Muhammed actually did teach the world was flat. Indeed there is a Hadith in which he claimed that ships passing over the horizon was an optical illusion. And then there is the wacky bit in the Quran where Alexander the Great travels to the far west and finds the sun in its resting place, and if I recall he has a conversation with it. Fortunately for the safety of passengers on airlines like Emirates, Etihad and Qatar, most Muslims are somehow able to ignore those texts, although perhaps they do explain why despite the immense skill that Arabic navigators and shipbuilders existed, it was Christopher Columbus, using a ship design that originated in the Middle East, who sailed across the Atlantic, in the hopes of finding a shorter route to India. For the Muslims this possibility might not have occurred to them despite the fact they clearly had the technology (especially given that Leif Ericsson was able to do it in the harsh North Atlantic using Viking longboats which were vastly inferior to Arab sailing vessels). [/QUOTE]
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