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Catholic Flatearth Believers
« on: October 02, 2019, 07:56:54 AM »
Where are the Catholics who believe in this 
form of the earth?

Re: Catholic Flatearth Believers
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2019, 07:14:03 AM »
After looking into this for a long time it's what I believe. 
Is this kind of a dead topic? Anyone????


Re: Catholic Flatearth Believers
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2019, 10:48:34 AM »
After looking into this for a long time it's what I believe.
Is this kind of a dead topic? Anyone????

Some time ago it was HUGE on this forum. Then it disappeared. A week ago you posted, no reply. No idea where they went.

Re: Catholic Flatearth Believers
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2019, 01:12:14 PM »
Where are the Catholics who believe in this
form of the earth?
There used to be a small vocal group of flat earth proponents on the forum who posted on the topic so much that it was derailing other topics and disrupting the forum.  Matthew, the forum owner, created this sub-forum for the topic which made it easy for those with no interest in it to ignore it.  After a while, even the flat earthers seem to have lost interest.

There were never very many of them on this forum to start with.  It is not really a position that one would expect traditional Catholics to adopt since, for over a thousand years, the traditional position among Catholics has been to think that the earth is a sphere.  Early in Church history, it was a matter of disagreement among the Church Fathers, but over time they reached a consensus.  By the time St. Bede taught spherical earth around 700AD there was complete acceptance (at least among anyone for whom we have a record of their views.)

There are websites that deceptively present quotes from the Church Fathers to imply that they as a group believed in flat earth.  If you have accepted f.e. because you were tricked by this, please rethink your position.  There was no unanimity among the Fathers on this.  This means their beliefs are their private opinions with no authority for future Catholics.  And after the patristic period, there is virtually no evidence of any Catholics who believed in flat earth until the recent revival by neo-pagans and fundamentalist Protestants.  

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Re: Catholic Flatearth Believers
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2019, 10:02:07 AM »
Some time ago it was HUGE on this forum. Then it disappeared. A week ago you posted, no reply. No idea where they went.

I think that it gradually faded due to Flat Earth being relegated to this subforum and also being removed from the "Recent Threads" listings ... so that your average user isn't even aware of what's taking place here.  I myself had been very engaged in the Flat Earth discussions, but even for me it's be "out of sight, out of mind" for a long time now.