Let's Make Religion History

A campaign by ad agency Loud & Clear.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• religion
• invisible
• friends
• atheism
• agnosticism
• christianity
• christian
• islam
• muslam
• hindu
• richard
• dawkins
• creationism
• intelligent
• design
• debate

[LeTinctoire]

We never thought the Earth was flat. Never. Get your history facts right.

[Poidar]

@LeTinctoire ...despite all the well-cited references that say we did? Why do you deny them? You sound personally affronted by this - bit sensitive on the subject of religion aren't you.

[saiglos]

Fantastic! They should aim for a Super Bowl ad. That would just be.. well.. Super.

[LeTinctoire]

@MegaFloyd100 If you look hard enough, you can derive anything -- fact or fiction -- from any vague text.

[MegaFloyd100]

@LeTinctoire Biblical science foreknowledge # 13- A REVOLVING (SPHERICAL) EARTH (Luke 17:34-36). Jesus said that at His return some would be asleep at night while others would be working at day time activities in the field, a clear indication of a revolving earth, with day and night occurring simultaneously. # 45-LIGHT CAN BE DIVIDED (Job 38:24).Isaac Newton discovered that white light is made of seven colours, which can be "parted" and then recombined. God declared this four millennia ago!

[rcguy69]

Well how DO you make wheat grow?

[Mriya6]

Thank you very much for uploading, this video was too good not to share.

[LeTinctoire]

@asdf36254 Regarding Columbus: if proving sphericity was ever his objective, he probably wanted to prove it was a *full* sphere, not a semisphere, or that the sphere was fully traversable. Because there is still an 'edge' of the world if you have a full sphere: if you sail past the equator, you'll fall off the ball.

[LeTinctoire]

@asdf36254 I've looked into it now, and you may be partially(!) right. Diogenes Laërtius, a Greek biographer from the third century A.D., discusses who may have come up with the concept of a spherical earth. So around his time, the idea of a spherical earth had won the debate. Also note that Eratosthenes (second century B.C.) already calculated the earth's size with very high precision for his time.

[LeTinctoire]

@Poidar The latter is just the inability of text to convey subtle emotions. I'm very irreligious and non-spiritual and whatnot. I just get annoyed when "common knowledge" like this is casually taken for true.

I've never seen "well-cited references" that prove that a sufficiently important group of people thought the Earth was flat. The ancient Greek knew very well that we live on a 'sphere' (they liked the idea of perfect spheres), and the generations after them knew this as well.