One of the funniest groups besides the Black Israelites are perhaps the Flat Earthers. Basically it's an after school group (not cult, because cults are creepy) that believes the earth is flat instead of spherical. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, etc are seen as spheres themselves, but the Earth specifically is flat. Not only that but the Sun and moon are somewhere above the Earth in the atmosphere. Kind of like the clouds, but higher.
It's not so much the theories that the Flat Earth group will come up with that I find most interesting, but instead the theories of HOW groups like these got started. I think Joe Rogan claimed it was an internet joke that people eventually took seriously (more likely). Personally, myself, I believe it's a conspiracy designed to see how gullible, dumb, and tribal people can be. If that's the case then it's all much more insidious than we thought. If they see success in pushing nonsense like Flat Earth groups, then they'll push something much more sinister, that a larger portion of the public will follow. "Hey kids from the same company that bought you the great taste of Flat Earth Conspiracy theory, now comes the brand new flavor of 666 cattle branding for your very own forehead or hand!" Luckily for us, now they've kept it small to promoting the "Earth is flat" to naive people.
Unfortunately this particular movement is now being used to slander Christians especially. Let me show you how it's done.
- Step 1: Make stupid trend/conspiracy theory (i.e. Flat Earth)
- Step 2: Hire people to follow stupid trend/conspiracy theory, or if you're lucky, get people to actually believe said stupid trend/conspiracy theory
- Step 3: Make the people you hired who promote the stupid trend/conspiracy theory call themselves Christian or bunch themselves up with Christians.
- Step 4: Sit back and watch Christians get a bad name in public.
This is the perhaps the second most pronounced time, that I can remember, when they tried to pull this against Christians. The first was the famous Westboro Church which was a family of lawyers. This Flat Earth stuff is the second one. What will happen is that the Flat Earth crew will challenge known scientists who have witnessed or studied the known curvature of the Earth. The Flat Earth crew will provide no standing of evidence to the contrary of what we clearly see in the night sky or by shuttle or by modern technology. So the Flat Earth people will look completely stupefied before well experienced professionals. That's when the Flat Earth people will begin to claim to be Christian or that the Bible somehow, in someway, promotes a Flat Earth theory (it does not). If I can make an analogy to this, it's like some people claiming shooting yourself in the foot is a great thing to do. And in order to back up their claim they point to, let's say, the story of David using a sling as an example. Of course the Bible won't have any real example to back up such stupidity, but the group is there specifically to defame Christians or the Bible.
The problem is this stuff is working. Flat Earth people are garnering an interest in the press. Albeit the interest being one where Flat Earthers are made fun of. And from what I see the Flat Earth people on popular media will do everything they can to group themselves with the Bible or Christianity. What happens is that the public now is ever increasingly feeling they should throw away their Bibles and shun those Christians. This creates a problem.
The Bible thus goes from that book that teaches men to be masculine, men to love their wives, men to be honest in the workplace, women that it's okay to love men, young children to practice self control, etc to becoming that silly book that Flat Earthers use to justify their stupidity. The Christians then go from, those people who try to improve their community or go to aid less fortunate areas, to becoming those crazy people who believe in Flat Earth nonsense. And so on and so forth.
Innocent on the outside, but a great tactic for slander.
