The Church Says The Earth Is Flat

[ItsjustMe]

[Skittles]

1. Obama nails it

if you want to believe in nonsense, so be it. But do NOT force it on the rest of us.

[Collimator]

2. Just thinking about Hobby Lobby

And their refusal to pay for insurance plans that would provide contraceptives to their employees.

If they--or some other big company--is owned by Jehovah's Witnesses, could they refuse to fund insurance plans that pay for blood transfusions?

[keithbvadu2]

3. Religious freedom for the right kind?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. To nitpick: the Magellan 'quotation' is false

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan

and the belief in a flat earth in the Christian church (ie among those educated enough to leave a written record) had died out by the 6th century or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Early_Christian_Church

So we see, for example, Bede, a prominent English cleric in the 8th century, saying the Earth is a globe: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/05/the-earth-is-in-fact-round.html