Ohh I have some bad news for you regarding flat earthers. It’s one of those conspiracy theories that seems harmless and fun at first glance, but then you ask them why it is that every single government on the planet would all agree to lie about the shape of the world when so many of those govenments are enemies and would love any opportunity to make the others look bad.
And surprise surprise, the flat earthers answer is It’s the jews
Which is dumb as hell, the earth used to be flat until Al Pharazon sailed a fleet from Numenor to conquer the Valar. Illuvatar wasn’t gonna see that happen again and made the world round. WHICH IS WHY ELVES CAN SEE REALLY FAR DESPITE THE EARTH’S CURVATURE, DAVE.
I’ve seen a type of flat earther that - at least as far as I can’t tell - aren’t anti-Semitic. Instead they get into it because they take biblical literalism very seriously. The Bible does imply that the earth is flat and tbh I don’t think that believing the earth is flat is a lot crazier than thinking Noah’s flood was a real, global event as described in the Bible.
It feels like there’s a segment of evangelicalism that’s getting even more serious about biblical literalism. I’ve even seen an emerging “slavery is good, actually” thought among them. Because the Bible absolutely condones slavery and the excuse of “well God allowed the Israelites to do it because everyone else around them did too, and it was normal at the time” has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
Flat earthers also really abusive/controlling and paranoid in my personal experience. The kind of person to secretly install location tracking apps on their partners phone for instance.
Makes sense. People believe in a conspiracy theory like that because they are insecure and feel like they are lacking control over their own life. So they would be likely to be a controlling and manipulative partner as a result.
Ohh I have some bad news for you regarding flat earthers. It’s one of those conspiracy theories that seems harmless and fun at first glance, but then you ask them why it is that every single government on the planet would all agree to lie about the shape of the world when so many of those govenments are enemies and would love any opportunity to make the others look bad.
And surprise surprise, the flat earthers answer is It’s the jews
They’re just whimsical nazis basically
Which is dumb as hell, the earth used to be flat until Al Pharazon sailed a fleet from Numenor to conquer the Valar. Illuvatar wasn’t gonna see that happen again and made the world round. WHICH IS WHY ELVES CAN SEE REALLY FAR DESPITE THE EARTH’S CURVATURE, DAVE.
Oh yeah? If the earth is flat, what’s it supported by?
It’s Jews all the way down!
God damn it
They also pull a lot from evangelical theology and congregations. Surprise surprise.
I’ve seen a type of flat earther that - at least as far as I can’t tell - aren’t anti-Semitic. Instead they get into it because they take biblical literalism very seriously. The Bible does imply that the earth is flat and tbh I don’t think that believing the earth is flat is a lot crazier than thinking Noah’s flood was a real, global event as described in the Bible.
It feels like there’s a segment of evangelicalism that’s getting even more serious about biblical literalism. I’ve even seen an emerging “slavery is good, actually” thought among them. Because the Bible absolutely condones slavery and the excuse of “well God allowed the Israelites to do it because everyone else around them did too, and it was normal at the time” has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
Flat earthers also really abusive/controlling and paranoid in my personal experience. The kind of person to secretly install location tracking apps on their partners phone for instance.
Don’t ask how I know this…
Makes sense. People believe in a conspiracy theory like that because they are insecure and feel like they are lacking control over their own life. So they would be likely to be a controlling and manipulative partner as a result.