Why Are There No FE Atheists?
Answers Not In Genesis with Dr. Danny Faulkner Meme
Hello FE Friends,
I’ve been traveling across the United States, temporarily relocating to settle my parents’ affairs. Driving has given me lots of time to think of new ideas, videos, posts, and memes for Flat Out Hope.
Sadly, I have not been able to put them together since I have been sitting behind the driver’s seat of one of our vehicles. Yet, driving provided excellent opportunities to listen to podcasts, audiobooks, and sermons. Here’s a podcast/sermon by Kendall Lankford on The Heart of Eschatology that blessed me greatly.
I also praise God for safe travels during the trip.
Today, I wanted to share this meme that was inspired by my review of Danny Faulkner’s Falling Flat.
I’ve got several more memes brewing.
Hope you enjoy.
Please feel free to download (or screenshot) the image and share on your favorite social media platform.
By the way, you can find Faulkner’s quote that supports this meme on page seven of Falling Flat.
Is there anything in his book that isn’t a stereotype or straw man fallacy?
Revisiting this today: Does Danny give a citation for anyone saying what "flat earthers often say"? I've personally never heard anyone say anything close to this stereotype strawman, and I've listened to thousands of hours of recordings and videos from a variety of flat-earth worldviews. If anything, in my experience, the whole "flat-earth movement" is a little too conspiratorial and new-age-ish for my taste. At the risk of using a baseless claim or generality fallacy, the number of Christian bible believers is far below the non-believers in the 'movement.'
But what SHOULD be the number one epiphany of every person who realizes the earth is most definitely a horizontal plane... is that IT WAS CREATED, and THERE IS A CREATOR. And it doesn't take too much research to understand that the only Creator God who has spoken extensively about His creation is the God of the Bible.
Perhaps this undeniable fact is why Danny must create a fictional straw man to argue and burn. And just like the devil (that liar), he uses a little truth and then inverts it so that no one actually pays attention and THINKS about what he's saying here.
There are no atheists in the Flat-earth movement? Hmmmm. Why would THAT be? Taking him as read, could it be that everyone who knows the earth we dwell upon is measured as a horizontal plane, and ALSO that it MUST have been created?
Excuse me... but isn't that what Christians are supposed to believe from the get-go? I mean... God is the Creator of everything we see and don't see.
And while we're talking about 'movements', can we take a moment to think about the Helioctentric movement? There seems to be quite a large proportion of atheists clinging to the god of "SCIENCE" and materialism in the Helios-centered solar system and evolved life from the evolved cosmos and a singularity (or something like that).
If anything, there ought not be ANY Christians in the movement that worships the god Helios and names all their planets and projects, and equipment after lesser gods.
But I'm not going to claim to have talked to any of these Heliosian believers. Most just believe because that's the way they were raised.