I agree that modern science has had a factor in the paganization of society but that's only because they have taken God out of the equation. It's not because they claim the Earth is a globe. This is all very irrelevant, as the quote provided shows, and actually detracts from what matters.
Yes, they have taken God out of the equation. So true. And one of the main ways in which they went about doing this is to make us believe that we are just some random planet in the universe that happens to have human life on it. They have tried to make us believe that our earth is not unique, and that surely there's life on other planets, somewhere.
The basis of the reason for taking God out of the equation is that they (scientists, educators, governments, NASA, television, Hollywood, and even religious leaders) are telling us or implying that our earth is not made by God for us humans. For me, that's the bottom line. It's where the terrible heresy starts. The idea of the globe earth makes it all the more possible to teach the lie.
Or, they push the Freemasonic agenda, which is that the GAOTU (great architect of the universe) created our universe and planet and then left it to us to sort it all out.