RE: Flat Earther, and other conspiracy theories. Are they mostly atheists?
April 19, 2021 at 2:51 am
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2021 at 2:52 am by Fake Messiah.)
(February 27, 2021 at 8:28 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: So, I have a video on youtube, it was about the belief in a flat Earth.
I got into a discussion with someone.
He says (possibly a theist):
“Tbh, most of the conspiracy theorists I know are atheists. Maybe I'm just lucky.”
I can imagine that from a perspective of a theist, a believer in conspiracy theories is an atheist because a lot of conspiracy theories don’t need laws of physics broken to be believed in. Like if someone believes in bigfoot it’s believing in a creature that is just more harrier than some hairy humans, or space aliens could have come to Earth without breaking the laws of physics and nature.
So, from a perspective of a theist who believes in a guy who came from a virgin birth, walked on water, and resurrected, a conspiracy nut looks almost like an intellectual and therefore atheist. Because believing in religious stuff is much more batshit crazy than lots of conspiracies—like Sam Harris once said: “If you believe that saying few Latin words above pancakes will turn them into Elvis, you are crazy, but if you do the same for waffles and Jesus, you’re just a Catholic.”
Now, of course, flat-Earthism is up there with man flying on a donkey to a city in the sky, and waffles turning into flesh, so it would be hard to tie it with atheism.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"