John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com> wrote:
 |> On 26 Jan 2018, at 07:35, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
 |> On 01/24/2018 10:33 PM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
 |>> Robert Elz said:
 |>> 
 |>>> Once upon a time, the world was always flat, everyone knew that,
 |>>> the pope even proclaimed it...
 |>>> 
 |>> Cite?
 |
 |A spherical earth pre-dates a Pope by quite a few centuries.  One of \
 |the better known Greeks (whose name escapes me) even estimated the \
 |diameter of the earth.  A flat earth is a relatively new fad.

Now i am anything but a christian, yet i would support the
philosophical reasoning.

 |> I doubt whether any Roman Catholic pope proclaimed the Earth flat \
 |> as a matter of doctrine. That being said, flat-Earthers are still \