How can it be a throwback mentality when there were Church Fathers who believed in a flat earth? Unless you mean to say that this form of Tradition is outdated. We simply are going back to an older tradition from before the Protestants, atheists and pagans began to rule the sciences and society in general.
I understand that you are embarrassed by us. As if those who are looking into tradition would want nothing to do with tradition because some trads believe in a flat earth. Well, we are a distinct minority. Most trads believe as you do. And any prospective trads will see that there are divergent opinions regarding this issue, and they can decide for themselves. Hopefully, they will see that our side is more mature and charitable (well, for the most part).
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There was no "older tradition from before the Protestants" that held the earth was "flat." You're fantasizing, again.
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Perhaps you don't intend to do so, but all you can possibly accomplish is to give Traditional Catholicism a bad reputation.
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That is the bad fruit of flat-earthism, in the real world.
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Of course, it will be an erroneously bad reputation, because Catholics have not been under this mythical flat-earthism as you claim they have been. There has been no definitive teaching of the Church regarding the shape of the earth, because that is not what the Church teaches. Things that are observable with the 5 senses are not the stuff of Church definition. There never has been any dogmatic definition of things that we can test with our own observation today, because that is not what definition is for. So you're barking up the wrong tree.
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You're barking up the wrong tree, and all you can ever expect to accomplish is DAMAGE. I.e., bad fruit.
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So long as you keep it up, you will be doing this
with the warning, right here, that you are causing damage. Then you will be causing damage willfully, and you will be held responsible for that deliberate act of subterfuge. Fair warning.
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Topic: The Fruits of the Flat Earth Position (Read 57709 times)