>>12200420>Does the Bible even say anything about that?It doesn't. It talks about "the four corners of the earth" but only in alegorical passages.
The story of the Church and "flat earthism" comes from a blatant American rewriting of history around the trial of Galileo and the voyages of Columbus. In the American story Galileo was put on trial because he said the Earth goes around the Sun not the other way around, and was accused of heresy because supposedly the bible says the earth is flat. IN REALITY Galileo was put on trial as a way to hurt the political power of Pope Urban VIII, who was Galileo's friend and benefactor. Protestantism in Germany was becoming a problem and their ultra-fundamentalist ways demanded that natural philosophy (which the Catholic Church was always at the forefront of) be labeled heresy almost in it's entirety, which the more civilized Florentines were not prepared to do, so throwing Galileo under the bus was a compromise.
The Protestant reformation happened anyway, and in the aftermath of the 30 years war (after everyone had forgotten what they were actually fighting about) Dutch Protestants labeled the war a "war against superstition" thus creating the myth that the Catholic Church was anti-science, when in fact their Calvanist preachers were already arguing that Genesis was a perfect record of history.
Americanism comes into play when Columbus supposedly sailed across the Atlantic to prove the earth was round. In fact everyone already knew the Earth was round, and even it's rough size. Columbus was attempting to prove the earth was much smaller than it is thus making the trip to Asia by going west feasible with the ships of the day. He was wrong but he got lucky.
Thus American protestantism becomes the champions of science and progress throughout history, when in reality they're a bunch of scientifically backwards liars.
