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So as I suggested earlier, you don't know who posted the video.

Does it matter who posted the video ? This still doesn't render the articles in the video as untrue.
 
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Well, I tried a search for "Guiding Hand of the Zion Colony" and it brought up just one hit, an AI overview starting:

"The phrase "Guiding Hand of the Zion Colony" is not a widely known historical term, but it is the name of a specific museum exhibition. It may also be a descriptive phrase referring to the spiritual leadership within certain religious communities, particularly the Shakers or the Mormon pioneers, who established "Zion" colonies."
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Ok so the person in 2025 is not well known and not well known by some articles name that a writer applied to the person.

I had never heard of him till this thread.
 
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Does it matter who posted the video ? This still doesn't render the articles in the video as untrue.
But (again I am repeating what I have written before about this matter) the articles are posted as though the newspaper were publishing them as serious scientific findings. We don't know if that is so or not. Also, if the person who posted the video was so sure of his facts, why did he post it anonymously?
 
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Well, I tried a search for "Guiding Hand of the Zion Colony" and it brought up just one hit, an AI overview starting:

"The phrase "Guiding Hand of the Zion Colony" is not a widely known historical term, but it is the name of a specific museum exhibition. It may also be a descriptive phrase referring to the spiritual leadership within certain religious communities, particularly the Shakers or the Mormon pioneers, who established "Zion" colonies."
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Maybe this is what you need.

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Poor Rob, no one will let him rest in peace.

I will not let Rob to have died in vain, his good work needs telling to the world.
 
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Thats right Prodromos. Geocentrism was the prevalent view of the Orthodox Church along the Protestant and Catholic Church there was certainly nothing else that looked like a prevailing view until the 16 century that even looked like a competitor until the Heliocentric model began . And you did mention the Orthodox Church did you not in your post 48. before unleashing your brutal remarks in saying I was Full of it. Maybe you should read more carefully before shooting your mouth off with such brutal comments more so when they turn out not to be true.
And still, I never claimed that the Orthodox Church NEVER embraced Ptolemy's system, which is what you falsely claimed I said. Perhaps you should read more carefully before shooting your mouth off. I had pointed out that in Greece, Aristarchus of Samos had already shown evidence of the earth orbiting the sun before the 2nd Century BC, so whereas geocentrism was the only view in many other countries it was not so in Greece, nor was it dogmatically declared to be so in the Eastern Churches, unlike Rome.
 
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Where did you ever mention Aristarchus in your post 48 or anywhere else in this post on that matter. You didn't’. Aristotle also also believed in a heliocentric viewpoint but it was never accepted. Everyone went with Ptolemy”s system . I never said the Orthodox dogmatically believed as the Roman Church did but they believed in Geocentrism. More so than what they believed of Aristotle or Aristarchus in their their belief about heliocentricity. all I wrote on my post 47 to your reply of when you asked who were they . I wrote post 47 that this was the accepted viewpoint of most Christian nations at the time be they Roman Catholic the Orthodox Church and the Protestant church. I never mentioned any church being dogmatic on the matter. Only that Geocentrism was the predominant belief . So that gives you the right to say I’m full of it ( twice ) once in post 48 and then later in another post and in another post some pathetic statement saying that you have unveiled my falsehood. ???Is this because of Aristarchus you have done this ??? who you did not even mention in your post 48.??? And who was never really taken seriously nor really accepted by anyone on the matter little lone Aristotle when it came to Heliocentrism .. Prodromus perhaps you should seriously think about what you said in calling someone full of it .???? And saying you revealed their falsehood over the matter of my post 47 It’s not a light thing to make such false accusations.. that’s all I say
 
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Where did you ever mention Aristarchus in your post 48 or anywhere else in this post on that matter. You didn't’.
I included a link to Wikipedia in the text of my post regarding how long heliocentrism has been a consideration.
 
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It’s not a light thing to make such false accusations.. that’s all I say
Yet you continue to double down on your false accusation that I claimed the Orthodox Church never accepted geocentrism. Perhaps you should remove the beam from your own eye.
 
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