Creationists Are Mocking Flat Earthers for Taking the Bible Too Literally

[NeoGreen]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/17/creationists-are-mocking-flat-earthers-for-taking-the-bible-too-literally/

Creationists Are Mocking Flat Earthers for Taking the Bible Too Literally
July 17, 2017 by Hemant Mehta

How do Young Earth Creationists, known for not understanding or accepting science, dismiss Flat Earthers who do the same thing (and sometimes cite the Bible as proof that the Earth isn’t round)?

An episode of Answers in Genesis’ news show recently tackled that very topic. And the way they wrote off the Flat Earthers was by saying — wait for it — that no one takes the Bible literally.

The people famous for claiming the Book of Genesis is actual history of how God created everything in six 24-hour days are mocking Flat Earthers for just taking the Bible’s words at face value.

(snip)

The hosts are Drs. Georgia Purdom and Danny Faulkner.

Before they talk about interpreting the Bible, they want everyone to know right off the bat that atheists are responsible for Flat Earthers.

FAULKNER: I want to point out that these arguments that people put forth today for the Flat Earth, supposedly from the Bible, don’t come, historically, positions of the church. The church never argued these points from scripture. This all arose in the 19th century. Surprisingly enough, these arguments that Flat Earthers are using, supposedly from the Bible to support Flat Earth, are ones that were put forth from the skeptics and the atheists in the 19th century, trying to bring disrepute upon the scripture, showing it’s not authoritative.

So I’m puzzled, and it breaks my heart at the same time, to see people parroting arguments that are 140, 150 years old!

PURDOM: [Laughing] From people who are skeptics!

FAULKNER: And atheists! Folks, you’re using their arguments, not the church’s arguments. Check the history on that and you’ll find out what I’m telling you is the truth here…

As we all know, the Church has never been against the side of science. (Right, Galileo?)

Even if Faulkner is right that the modern Flat Earth movement uses arguments perpetuated by atheists as a way to discredit scripture (“The Bible says the world is flat!”), maybe he should be less concerned about the atheists than the fact that the Bible can be manipulated so easily to get people to believe bullshit.

Repeating to highlight:

Before they talk about interpreting the Bible, they want everyone to know right off the bat that atheists are responsible for Flat Earthers.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Taking something seriously but not literally

Where else have we heard this in recent history?

[rurallib]

2. wait --- whut???

who did whut the F?

[Lordquinton]

3. I always wonder why "taking it literally" is bad?

Apparently just reading the book is wrong, you have to have someone interpret it for you (didn't they start a whole schism over that?)