The earth is flat

[Kilgore]

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/07/colorado-earth-flat-gravity-hoax/



The Denver Post

NEWS COLORADO NEWS
These Coloradans say Earth is flat. And gravity’s a hoax. Now, they’re being persecuted. The Flat Earth movement is growing in Colorado, thanks to technology and skepticism about science

They call themselves Flat Earthers. Because they believe Earth — the blue, majestic, spinning orb of life — is as flat as a table.

The Fort Collins group — mostly white and mostly male, college-age to septuagenarian — touts itself as the first community of Flat Earthers in the United States. Sister groups have since spawned in Boston, New York, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Chicago.

[tblue37]

1. They should realize that

if the earth were flat, cats would have already pushed everything off it by now:

https://facebook.com/346786585442633/posts/1303718953082720

[MineralMan]

2. Persecuted? Only if telling them they're idiots for not

paying attention to facts is persecution.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. Must be true - I have seen pictures!!

Just google "flat earth" and you will see lots and lots of pictures

[TheBlackAdder]

4. This is actually an offshoot of the Biblical Inerrancy cult movement of the 1980s.

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Before the 80s, people who thought of the Bible being without error were seen as pariahs.

Then, there was a big push, around the same time as the "Moral Majority" came to be, and churches slowly adopted this thought. Christians who believed in Verbal Dictation or Verbal Plenary Inspiration argued that, since the Bible was inspired by God, it must be perfect. Evangelical minister, Harold Lindsell, wrote a book and later headed the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. An astonishing 335 Evangelical leaders signed onto the “The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy."

Soon, the educated ministers were forced out of churches. Religious universities, began to purge any doctors who refused to sign onto inerrancy, since the Bible contains hundreds of erroneous and conflicting passages. Compound this with the modernist view that anyone can be a minister, without official training or education, as long as one was divinely inspired or felt so.

This led to a complete dumbing down of religion within Christianity, as the majority of church organizations and movements have now subscribed to this Biblical Inerrancy movement.


The problem with this belief, is that people must make up stories and excuses to resolve these Biblical errors.

Now, after 35 years, a generation and a half, most people are used to explaining away things to meet their needs.

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[WinkyDink]

5. They've been reading their own EEGs.

[Binkie The Clown]

6. "The Onion" might as well pack it in. Reaqlity has caught up to them. n/t