Re: CHAT: Religions (was: Visible planets)

Ray Brown scripsit:

> Are you serious about the 1st? I know 'Merkan Fundamentalist are
> very 'fundamental' by UK standards - but you mean that some still
> hold to the geocentric theory, like the good ol' "Flat Earth
> Society"?
It's hard to be sure, because there's a lot of parody out there.
Serious flat-earthism is vanishingly rare (the two members of the
(U.S.) International Flat Earth Society died in a fire some years ago,
I believe); Ptolemaic or Tychonic geocentricism is a lot more common.
I don't know that any particular sects or churches adhere to it,
but certainly many individuals believe it, and I think it safe to say
that no one who is not a particularly literal-minded sort of inerrantist
would attach any value to either idea.

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....

--
"But I am the real Strider, fortunately,"       John Cowan
he said, looking down at them with his face     jcowan@reutershealth.com
softened by a sudden smile.  "I am Aragorn son  http://www.ccil.org/~/cowan
of Arathorn, and if by life or death I can      http://www.reutershealth.com
save you, I will."  --LotR Book I Chapter 10

Reply