Making the Flat Earth Round, Biblically, Somehow

MY SIXTH GRADE TEACHER told our class to never discuss two things with anyone: as you might suppose,the subjects on her no fly list included politics, and religion, in no particular order. From the git go, I understood her reasoning, and knew that she made good sense, but sense has never assuaged my contempt for constraints. The two most interesting topics, placed off limits by the very lady upon whom I had a major eleven year old crush. The wide world of begats, thous shalt nots, Viet Nam, and Robert F. Kennedy. forever sealed off as if behind yet another adult-built barricade to knowledge. This was in 1966. The subsequent forty nine years have little to change my attitude; it is still not diplomatically expedient to broach the two taboos, which also happen to be the two best barometers of the individual mind. The years have only worsened matters. I know more, and have more to say. My fellow Americans, victims of a decaying culture, have ever fewer worthwhile responses,more arrogance, less openmindedness. So, I'm careful, to whom I speak, and what I say. Careful, but ever intrepid, and perhaps foolish. The idea for a survey sprang forth during a chat with a friend of mine, a local devoutly Christian librarian lady. A devout Christian, like everyone except me. I wanted to know whether she understood the implications of what seems obvious to me; according to the Bible, the world is flat. Nonplussed for a moment, she seemed to recover quickly, as from the urgent necessity of parrying an adversarial thrust. Her first rejoinder was that she could think of nothing in scripture explicitly stating that the world is flat, and she asked me if I could. And, she added, she knows her scripture. Game on! Accepting the challenge,a couple of days later I handed her a list. Her challenge had been met. I backed off, and watched. And waited. And waited. She stayed in her corner. Days turned into weeks. She had not had time to look up the passages I had supplied. busy with work, family, Bible studies, evangelical classes, church. She would get to it. Her faith took up all her time,time was dear, and my list of scriptural soundbytes would simply have to wait. The waiting continues. That's OK, I have plenty of time. All the time in the flat world, far as I can tell. If she does not come to me,I can politely go to her. Am I being unfair to shake the faith of a devout person by throwing in a little scripture ,mixed with its obvious contradiction of reality? I think not. The lady is a self described "evangelist", and as such, is fair game. The heat in the kitchen, and all that.