Actually, I hardly ever participate on Cathinfo much anymore because of inane conversations about flat earth.  Hard to take it seriously when this kind of stupid talk is popularized.  I came into this thread by chance, and because it was titled: What Do Cathinfo Members Think.  ...so this is what I think.  

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if flat earther people were plants in our community set up here to delititmize us and make us look crazy.  Lord knows, the FBI and CIA last week shown themselves not to be above such stiff.  Of all the things we should be talking about...you people engage in this navel gazing.  Can we talk about Pokemon, pogs, and Magic the Gathering next?  

Anyway, moving on.  Flat Earthers are insular and ignorable.  

Why the need for so many threads about this topic?  Is the earth flat - yes or no?  3-4 threads would suffice, (if you even need more than 1), yet there’s about 80+ in the span of the last 3-4 months.  Totally bonkers, obsessive and scary.  

I agree with the request by ‘an even seven’ to have all the evidence in one spot.  Why is this so hard?

Maybe the answer is that non-scientists are trying to explain science?  I’m not saying that in a demeaning way, just trying to understand the over-complexity or generality of many “answers”.  

And what is hoped to be solved by this debate?  I can understand a guy wearing a sign ‘the end is near’ and preaching repentance on a street corner.  At least his efforts will save souls and stop sin.  But what is solved by the obsessive debate over the earth’s shape?  Will it save people from hell?  Will it help people to love and come to Christ?  Will it instruct the ignorant in the Faith?  

All I see are the “fruits” of bickering, loss of time, and the over-emphasis on science as having some actual connection to salvation (I’d argue it has none).  Certainly, this subject has its place as a “potentially” fun and intellectually stimulating topic, but I think many of you give it way, way too much importance.  

Yes, it is a big deal.

Not that we have to believe in a flat earth for our salvation, but God has pretty much been taken out of Western society, and it could not have been so easily done without the belief in a globe earth. That's why I personally think it's important. It would not have been so important before, say, before the reformation in Europe. Modern science seems to have really taken off after that.

How did our western society get this point of being practically Godless? That's a question that's been important to me for awhile now. Not that it's ONLY the Godless modern science that's responsible for our present situation - there are a lot of factors too, it seems to me.