is this true i found this on Christian website
What I've found in a comparatively short period of time was a man named Lactantius who lived from 245-325AD. He of course rejected all previous theories from both secular and religious leaders that the earth was a globe or spherical in shape. Later in life Lactantius converted to Catholicism and at first was considered a heretic by the Roman church. However, during the Renaissance the Vatican did in fact promote his findings as scientific fact and actually persecuted and killed anyone who said otherwise. Somehow Christopher Columbus, the lone believer in a spherical earth at the time who was ridiculed and threatened by the Pope of Rome, did in fact set sail to prove the earth was spherical in shape. His findings did openly embarrass and confirm the Pope to be as he is to this day.
http://www.remnantofgod.org/flatearth.htm
P.S the flat eathy nonsense is filling up youtube videos
What I've found in a comparatively short period of time was a man named Lactantius who lived from 245-325AD. He of course rejected all previous theories from both secular and religious leaders that the earth was a globe or spherical in shape. Later in life Lactantius converted to Catholicism and at first was considered a heretic by the Roman church. However, during the Renaissance the Vatican did in fact promote his findings as scientific fact and actually persecuted and killed anyone who said otherwise. Somehow Christopher Columbus, the lone believer in a spherical earth at the time who was ridiculed and threatened by the Pope of Rome, did in fact set sail to prove the earth was spherical in shape. His findings did openly embarrass and confirm the Pope to be as he is to this day.
http://www.remnantofgod.org/flatearth.htm
P.S the flat eathy nonsense is filling up youtube videos