Toward the beginning of one of his anti-flat earth articles Robert Sungenis says:

"As we will see, it is their poor exegesis of the Bible that drives (flat earthers) to think that everything NASA
tells them about the Earth is a lie."

Is Sungenis some how, some way, defending the truth?

To make flat earthers feel real stupid, Sungenis says in his book:
"they (flat earthers) have been deceived by the Wellhausen scholars and have become the very unsophisticated and clueless Bible‐thumpers that the scholars wish to portray them as."

So anyone who quotes scripture is automatically a Bible-thumper? 

This is so telling.   

 

It is Sungenis' poor grasp of logic that drives him to make this statement.  Nobody says that EVERYTHING NASA tells us about the earth is a lie.  That's a huge strawman for starters.  Nevertheless, the legal principle holds that falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, or, "false in one thing, false in everything".  What this means is that if someone has been caught lying, then his entire testimony cannot be used as proof and has lost credibility.  Since NASA has been caught lying, faking, and hoaxing REPEATEDLY, even if they happen to be telling the truth about one or another thing here or there, their statement cannot be taken as proof or evidence of anything.

Sungenis then minimizes the NASA lying in his large book as consisting of one example where they obviously photoshopped a picture of the earth into the "lunar sky".  He even tried to minimize it by referring to the lie as a "foible".

No, Dr. Sungenis, entire volumes larger than even his own can be filled with docuмented proof of NASA fraud, hoaxes, and outright lying.  NASA therefore has no credibility whatsoever and nothing they produce can be used as proof for anything.  falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.  Nobody says they're lying about everything, just that you can't know for sure when they're lying and when they're not lying.

I love how Sungenis spends a very long time defending NASA, the same NASA that on account of their atheistic and Masonic agenda also deride Sungenis and his geocentrism.  So "Pilate and Herod made friends that day".  He should be ashamed of himself to take up the cause of the devilish NASA in order to beat up on FEs, most of whom should be considered as being on the same side, as we Catholic FEs have great reverence for the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture.

In any case, he reminds me of this story that happened on the school playground when I was a kid.  So one kid was regularly bullied by this one tough kid.  Then, at one point, the bully started beating up on a different kid, since I guess the bully got bored of the first one.  So, in order to curry favor with the bully, the first kid joined in on the attack against the new victim.  Sungenis, trying to not be reviled by NASA for associating with FEs, has joined in with NASA to beat up on NASA's newest victim ... hoping to curry favor with NASA and win some respectibility.  I find this shameful behavior, and so the gloves come off against Sungenis on this topic.  He can dish it out, so I have no problem serving it right back up to him.  Game on.  FEs by and large have always supported his work, and he turns on them now to ally with NASA.

I am a friend of his. Have you never defended a friend?!

 As I already indicated he has been defending himself for years on all kinds of venues -- a lot more than you could shake a stick at.

 I am confident in my belief that if Sungenis believed NASA was intentionally telling a particular falsehood while knowing it was false for the purpose of deceiving the public he absolutely would not defend their action in doing so.  If you are claiming that he not only would do that, but that he actually has done that in a knowing and voluntary way then you are making an assertion about his internal forum, something which I don't believe you have access to.  In effect you are stating that he has committed a sin.  I hope you would reconsider what you have said and not double down on it.

I have absolutely no problem in defending any good that NASA may do nor does Sungenis.  We both go with what we believe just as you go with what you believe.  You sweep with a very broad brush.  You indicate that NASA is lying because it backs Globe Earth.  Please take a deep breath.  Not even Holy Mother Church has pronounced on the subject.  It may well be that we will never know whether it's a FE or a GE until we die.

It's all fine and dandy that you think Sungenis acts like the first bullied child in your story in explaining his position on FE as being one simplistically motivated by a need to curry favor with NASA.  If you have solid docuмented proof of that please present it.  Frankly, I don't think he could care less about what NASA thinks about his work and I don't think NASA has one iota of influence over him.

Obviously, NASA lies about all kinds of things and Sungenis does not deny that for one second.  Sungenis, for example, has on many more than one occasion openly stated that he doesn't think we ever went to the moon and that NASA is lying about it.  If he was so consumed by a desire to curry favor with NASA (whatever that in practical terms actually means) he certainly would not be saying that! 

When it comes to NASA you really have no way of proving that they have pumped out more false information over the years than true information.  Heck if we were to just ignore NASA why should anyone go on to CathInfo and read all the goofy and often downright false stuff tossed onto its various forums!  Even on CathInfo we have a need to sort the wheat from the chaff.

In any event, regardless of the amount of false information NASA may have pumped out, you don't have to throw NASA (the baby) out with all its stinking bath water.  No doubt there are honest scientists and others working in good faith in that gigantic government agency just as there are honest scientists and others working outside of NASA.  To say that those outside NASA should exclude out of hand anything that comes out of that agency surely borders on the ludicrous.  The wisdom of the following words in Sacred Scripture need not be withheld when looking at NASA and all kinds of other worldly entities:  1 Thess. 5: 20-21: "Despise not prophecies [nor NASA. Some prophecies from the same prophets are true and some are false].  But prove all things; hold fast that which is good."  To absolutely refuse to examine any findings of NASA because of the potential lie in anything they say is akin to an extremely broad Luddite position which would not be open to any technological change because of the possible harm which may ensue.