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Flat Earthers

When people post that the Earth is flat I remove that because the Earth is not flat. It's rare but it happens and we have at least two of them going at it today.

I don't want to be accused of removing some sort of valid Christian position with the flat Earth stuff though. Does anyone here have a problem with us just removing this position and green tagging the removal with "This is removed because the Earth is not flat"? Or do you really want us to leave that kind of thing up so people can argue about NASA, the sky being blue because it's actually water, and who knows what else?

No, this is not a joke, although I wish it was. I would like to get this settled for good ASAP because it's incredibly stupid, but in all the time this sub has existed we've never actually asked you what you thought about this as far as I know.

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So where I'm standing now is that Biblical corroboration of this view is thin enough that we don't have to allow this argument on that basis, and can just declare the whole thing to be a distraction and remove it. Most people want this gone and that seems like a reason that keeps us from having to respond to arguments that we aren't applying the same standard to YEC.

There is a contingent here who want us to just free-speech this, which is an argument I can respect and am sympathetic to, but this kind of thing tends to be adjacent to secular conspiracies that aren't topical, for example the Moon landing hoax conspiracies, and we can include this and that, and I'm not at all sympathetic to the idea that we need to allow NASA conspiracies as some sort of Christian theological viewpoint.

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