Re: CHAT: Religions (was: Visible planets)

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> (Strange how the urban myth of Columbus's contemporaries believing the
> earth was flat still lingers on.  It apparently was dreamt up some time
> in the 19th cent. as a bit of anti-Catholic propaganda.  Urban myths
> die hard, it seems)
A couple of years ago, I read an interview of the leader of a Swedish racist
organization. The guy was apparently clever enough, but he earned my undying
contempt by saying that the modern insistence that all races are equal is much
like how all peaple 500 years ago "knew" the earth was flat. It's the sort of
thing making me tend to think that all racists are undereducated idiots.

> > In the _Illuminatus_ trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Michael Shea,
> > which is entirely parodies (and parodies of parodies, I suspect),
> > we are given the idea that the earth is carrot-shaped, and we all
> > live on the flat bottom of the carrot....
>
> Nah, it's pumpkin shaped   :-)
No no no! As Belvedere pointed out, we know it to be banana-shaped.

                                                            Andreas

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