• trebuchet@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      I find them baffling, what’s their deal?

      Is it like a religion for them or is there an actual religion?

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        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…

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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          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.

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          11 months ago

          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

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        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.

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          God’s kinda trash for:

          1. Being unclear about this
          2. Letting us infer whatever bullsh based on His nothing input
          3. Childhood cancer
      • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world
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        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.