The Earth is Flat

Submitted by morkodia (United States), Mar 7, 2007 at 14:50

By the way, don´t confuse Western values with Christianity. They don´t converge unless Church obey Western values and change Christianity bit by bit. One day we will listen to Pope saying that homoxeuality is not forbidden.

Yeah all right, just like muslims leaders were saying a few centuries back that in spite of what some crack smoker named Galileo Galiei was saying "the earth was flat", and whoever though it was rounded not only wasn't a good muslim but should be killed.

All that because of a few passages in the Koran that suggest that the earth was flat.

Today, after being demonstrated that we live in a sphere muslim leaders (same goes for some christians) run to the other side of the boat and proclaim that the Koran was always clear about the spherical nature of our planet, and when presented with verses in the Koran that point to the contrary all they can say is that "you have to read within the context" or "that's not what it really means.

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