An Open Letter To “Flat Earthers”
Excellent article (ignore the Trump-bashing video towards the end; the rest is excellent and on topic).
I am not here today in an attempt to debate on the subject of this
post, and I’m not here to declare what “shape” the earth is. The most
honest answer is invariable always that one which best describes one’s
best disposition, which is that I simply don’t know. I cannot know. I
have no vantage point to utter such a confident declaration and build a
faith-based counter-cultural movement around it. I would never claim to
know without seeing for myself, which I cannot.
This is, by the way, a great example of where the Trivium method (grammar, logic, rhetoric) works wonders. The trick with applying the Trivium method is to know when it is applicable and when it is not. The Truth, when told, needs not the Trivium to show it to be Truth. Only the lie, no matter how well-intentioned or ill-conceived it stands, can be defeated by…
This is, by the way, a great example of where the Trivium method (grammar, logic, rhetoric) works wonders. The trick with applying the Trivium method is to know when it is applicable and when it is not. The Truth, when told, needs not the Trivium to show it to be Truth. Only the lie, no matter how well-intentioned or ill-conceived it stands, can be defeated by…
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