373
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
373 points (98.2% liked)
InsanePeopleFacebook
2649 readers
2 users here now
Screenshots of people being insane on Facebook. Please censor names/pics of end users in screenshots. Please follow the rules of lemmy.world
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I used to be baffled by Flat Earthers until I realized it was just a religious thing.
I find them baffling, what's their deal?
Is it like a religion for them or is there an actual religion?
No, one of their core arguments is that language in the bible heavily implies that the earth is flat. Nevermind that the bible is a collection of stories from uneducated iron-age fanatics...
There's nothing in the Bible that implies the earth is flat... but most people who use the Bible to excuse their behavior don't actually read it, so it's not wild to hear they think the Bible is the basis for their beliefs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament
Isaiah 11:12 - And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Ezekiel 7:2 - Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
There is actually plenty of language in the bible that implies a flat earth. I found these examples with 5 minutes of searching.
Four corners of the earth usually refers to the cardinal directions, north, east, south, west. It doesn't mean there are actual corners at the edge of a plane.
Well sure, but only if you interpret it like a reasonable person, which they don't.
I thought flat earthers claim the earth is a disc (which has no corners)?
Like any good religious nut, their arguments are full of contradictions.
Wow, TIL, but it made more sense before I learnt of this fact
Edit: to be clear, it's not that I believe Earth to be flat, it's that this "argument" makes even less sense than an assumption that flat earth was just a trolling
Flat earth= god is beyond a doubt real.
Round earth= god may be real? We are not sure, probably not.
It's just a rehashed deep fried form of proselytizing as the people who fall for that shit, will surely fall for other shit, and you can even milk some money of out them like that guy who used them to build his own rocket.
God’s kinda trash for:
It is religion. They approach it as the Earth is the center of the universe and try to come up with experiments that prove their existing worldview instead of figuring out how things actually work.