I mean, Jaynek judges people, not for what they actually say, but for what she takes great pains to read into their posts. Reading the above post from Jaynek and Meg, it seems clear that Meg is trying to say that Heliocentrism led to a loss of faith among many Catholics. This of course is a matter of historical opinion, but it is an opinion that is held by many historians. I mean, if The Bible depicts a flat stationary Earth (which isn't even controversial, sorry if you didn't know that, but it does), then many people would reject it, based on a "scientific" belief that the Earth is a spinning globe.
Thanks, I appreciate your support. I should have maybe done a better job of explaining what I meant. I just assume that after having participated on these threads, that everyone here knew what I meant (even if they don't agree with it).
The globe earth leads to secular humanism, because it teaches that our earth is just another globe; one among many. We're just not that big a deal - though our earth does support life, of course. But it may or may not have had a creator, since it's basically the same shape as the others out there. And it has led to assertions that there must be life on other planets. Most people on earth believe in the heliocentric model, which teaches that earth is just one of the planets that rotate around the sun. The sun is at the center, not the earth. I used to watch the history channel, years ago, and all of the goofy alien theories they promote are just ridiculous. Yet they get away with it, because of the heliocentric model. Even my mom (who isn't at all religious) believes in the Jeremiah Sitchin view that we humans were once aliens on other planets. And now my oldest son is starting to believe in those theories, too. This is just one example of how secular humanism depends on the heliocentric globe model.
I'll try to explain it as best I can, as to why the flat earth is important. Hopefully other flatearthers will chime in too, with another perspective on the same thing:
Since the Bible depicts a flat stationary earth (as you mention above WholeFoodsTrad), we know by how different it is from the other bodies out there, such as the sun and moon, which are round. A stationary flat earth, located under the sun, moon, and stars, with a dome above it, as scripture depicts, makes it unmistakable that there is a creator who has put our earth as the center of creation, since the sun, moon, and stars rotate above the earth under a dome. On a flat earth, the sun is made for the earth and the earth alone, since it moves above the earth. It is obvious that God created all of it with us in mind.
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