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THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (6 children)

For a certain group of people, science and life have gotten too complicated, and they want to feel special with special knowledge (often coupled with a distorted god belief), so they fall in the conspiracy theory rabbit hole.

And flat earth is actually one of the more dangerous conspiracy theories too, according to this chart, as it is usually not the only conspiracy these people believe in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

dangerous

It killed that guy with the home built rocket

It's in the top category on that site, which is also all antisemitic — I haven't noticed a religious side to flat earth believers (aside from their belief in their idea of the shape of the planet)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I’ve heard quite a few flat earthers who claim that “they” are hiding god by hiding the true shape of the earth (according to the flat earthers obviously)

According to them the Bible tells them the world is flat and there’s a dome separating the waters above from the waters below.

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