Defense of comments, part 3

Recently, after being inspired by Kevin Drum, economist J. Bradford Delong reminded everyone that the Hebrew Bible tells us π equals three. Within the comments, we get a humorous exchange; first, an apparent Bible-defender notes:

3 versus 3.14159 is less than 5% measurement error. In a pre-industrial society. Doesn't strike me as a good reason to get snarky about.

So another commenter hits that ball out of the park:

New suggested biblical disclaimer: "The following material should be approached with the understanding that the Word of God has a margin of error of at least +/- 4%."

If God really wanted to be precise about the value of π, he could have provided the following formula: