i have a question [Atheist only]

[dyresand]

Because they are bat shit crazy?

[After the launch] of the first artificial satellite; when satellite images showed Earth as a sphere, the society was undaunted; Shenton remarked: "It's easy to see how a photograph like that could fool the untrained eye."

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The society also claimed that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax staged by Hollywood, a position also held by others not connected to the Flat Earth Society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat..._societies

Basically, it's one big conspiracy theory in which NASA and the UN are trying hide the Biblical "truth" that the world is flat:

The Flat Earth Society's most recent world model is that humanity lives on a disc, with the North Pole at its center and a 150-foot (45 m) high wall of ice at the outer edge. The resulting map resembles the symbol of the United Nations, which Johnson used as evidence for his position. In this model, the sun and moon are each 32 miles (52 km) in diameter.

Flat Earth Society recruited members by attacking the U. S. government and all its agencies, particularly NASA. Much of the society’s literature in its early days focused on interpreting the Bible literally to mean that the Earth is flat, although they did try to offer scientific explanations and evidence.

Why anyone would want to prove the earth is global when it is actually flat is less clear---just plain old atheistic malevolence I guess.

if they believe that they need to find the edge of the world and jump off of it.