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Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?

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Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 7:34 pm
Laughing can bring a response from the peanut gallery. "If they had any real refutation they would have resorted to personal attacks."
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 11:48 pm
(February 27, 2019 at 7:34 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Laughing can bring a response from the peanut gallery. "If they had any real refutation they would have resorted to personal attacks."

If it isn’t clear to you what their refutation could be, personal attacks are too good for you.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 28, 2019 at 7:59 am
(February 27, 2019 at 11:48 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(February 27, 2019 at 7:34 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Laughing can bring a response from the peanut gallery. "If they had any real refutation they would have resorted to personal attacks."

If it isn’t clear to you what their refutation could be, personal attacks are too good for you.

That sums up most of the people on Earth. But I do respond so the few who will comprehend have a chance to see there's another POV and it makes more sense than the raving loony.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
March 12, 2019 at 12:12 pm
I forgot about this video earlier, so Yonadav do you think this guy is also joking when he claims Earth is flat?



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"
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
March 12, 2019 at 12:17 pm
I don't take any of them seriously, blackface. I don't take them any more seriously than the atheists who are claiming to be satanists in that other thread.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
March 12, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Difference is that so called Satanists don't take religion and holy books seriously, while this guy does and when he says that he believes in flat Earth because it is in line with Koran and his religion, he is serious and honest about it.
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"
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March 12, 2019 at 2:37 pm
Anton LaVey didn't take his "Satanism" seriously, he wanted people to be nice to each other.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
March 12, 2019 at 3:25 pm
(March 12, 2019 at 2:00 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Difference is that so called Satanists don't take religion and holy books seriously, while this guy does and when he says that he believes in flat Earth because it is in line with Koran and his religion, he is serious and honest about it.

I'm certain that's what you want to believe, blackface. But some atheists pretended to be satanists convincingly enough to have their demands about a satanic display in their town taken seriously.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
March 12, 2019 at 3:45 pm
.......snickers..........
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
March 12, 2019 at 4:07 pm
(March 12, 2019 at 12:12 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I forgot about this video earlier, so Yonadav do you think this guy is also joking when he claims Earth is flat?



So you don't think there are any trolls in the FE movement?
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
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