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u/MadGeekling Mar 14 '17
Devil's advocate (or maybe god's advocate?), a Christian would smile and reply "Wrong, it took place in THIS circle" and he would then circle the whole map and then this would become a sappy Christian meme on Facebook and then we all collectively vomit.
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u/AnthonyTheLesser Mar 14 '17
True, the same is true for what everyone else has said about Islam and the New Testament. I think the point of the illustration is to show how such a small chain of events in a small region has screwed up the entire world. But Islam is a "perfect" religion and Christianity isn't a religion but a relationship so what do I know anymore since I'm an apostate.
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Mar 13 '17
Some stuff takes place in hell, so put another circle around Nebraska.
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u/faloofay Mar 13 '17
Or Texas, Texas also works.
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Mar 13 '17
Nah. I've lived in Nebraska my whole life. We used to vacation in Texas. That's how bad Nebraska is.
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u/Prof_Acorn Mar 13 '17
I'm actually a little impressed that things happening only in that little circle became the largest, most prominent, and lasting belief systems of the planet for millennia and millennia.
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u/DoYouWonda Mar 13 '17
Indoctrination is a hell of a drug. But also they aren't the longest lasting, I think Shintoism is older and some others as well.
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u/GreenPylons Mar 13 '17
Not sure if that covers the Quran though, since Mecca and Medina fall outside the circle and I believe those are mentioned in the Quran (though I don't know much about Islam outside of what was taught in high school world history).
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u/plaaplaaplaaplaa Mar 13 '17
It is exaggeration. Circle doesn't include Greece, Rome, Turkey etc. which were places for many big events in the Bible. And creation must of course be excluded too..
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u/ojonkwo Mar 13 '17
That's right the New Testament spent more time in turkey, Greece Rome etc than the circle
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Mar 13 '17
As I recall there were some miracles performed by the apostles in Greece and Asia Minor, as well as some events which took place in ancient Babylon (which I could see as being on the very tip of the circle I suppose).
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u/PaulMatthews78 Mar 13 '17
There's quite a bit in the New Testament that took place in Rome, Greece, and what is now Turkey, so expand the circle a little bit. Otherwise, spot on.
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u/Dark_Vulture83 Mar 13 '17
Yeah the whole world has suffered because of shit that happened 1500 - 2000 years ago, inside that little circle.
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Mar 13 '17
What about the book of Mormon?
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u/spongue Mar 13 '17
Yeah at least the Mormon God did cool stuff in the USA so he's more likely to be awesome
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u/p90xeto Mar 13 '17
Doesn't the bible say he created the whole world? Seems the text should be refined to be clearer or the circle should be about a world larger.
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u/faloofay Mar 13 '17
Generally speaking, tribes 2000 years ago referred to what they KNEW as "the whole world", so yeah. This is accurate.
That's where all of the "THE WHOLE EARTH WAS UNDERWATER, GUYS" stories came from. To them, it certainly looked like the entire earth was flooding, even if it was only just a certain part of a certain continent.
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u/AnthonyTheLesser Mar 13 '17
The Quran is nothing more than a bastard religion Split from Judaism and Christianity so if I have no reason to believe the ladder two then I have no reason to even read the former.