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Poll: Connections between biblical literalism, YE, Flat Earth
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 73572746" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p>I have a hypothesis that the flat earth is, for some if not all FE'ers, something of a hyperliteral interpretation of the Bible. I mean, in principle, the age and the shape of the earth are unrelated. So there could be Young Earthers who are Round Earthers, and Flat Earthers who are Old Earthers.</p><p></p><p>I hypothesize that although there are many of the former, there are few of the latter (and not just because there are a lot fewer Flat Earthers). That for many the only path to the Flat Earth is via a Young Earth. Possibly the cognitive dissonance of maintaining YE beliefs pushes people to rationalize even more deeply (in line with the conclusions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails" target="_blank">When Prophecy Fails</a>) and double down on literalism and this takes them into Flat Earth territory. </p><p></p><p>Or maybe I'm wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 73572746, member: 294566"] I have a hypothesis that the flat earth is, for some if not all FE'ers, something of a hyperliteral interpretation of the Bible. I mean, in principle, the age and the shape of the earth are unrelated. So there could be Young Earthers who are Round Earthers, and Flat Earthers who are Old Earthers. I hypothesize that although there are many of the former, there are few of the latter (and not just because there are a lot fewer Flat Earthers). That for many the only path to the Flat Earth is via a Young Earth. Possibly the cognitive dissonance of maintaining YE beliefs pushes people to rationalize even more deeply (in line with the conclusions of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails']When Prophecy Fails[/URL]) and double down on literalism and this takes them into Flat Earth territory. Or maybe I'm wrong. [/QUOTE]
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