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F*O*A*D

On 2/17/14, 5:57 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:20:34 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

You are the one who mentioned the ancient Egyptians...I merely was
indicating that it was religious ignorance from before then to well
after the death of Galileo that keep the belief of the sun revolving
around the earth...alive.

I am not sure of any wide spread religious belief that the earth is at
the center of the solar system.
I think you are just calling out the wide spread ignorance that is
coming out of our school system.

They may have heard something about astronomy in elementary or middle
school but they quickly forgot it.

You think such foolishness springs *spontaneously* from the minds of the
badly educated? I don't. I think it is taught...at home and among those
with fundamentalist beliefs.

What's harder to believe:

1. An uncreated god takes on human flesh.

2. A piece of bread transmogrifies into that same flesh.

3. The sun orbits the earth.