The Church Says The Earth Is Flat

[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