Quote (Knaapie @ Oct 31 2016 06:19am)
^^ lol yeah...
It was a Brit who founded the international flat earth society..
Butthurted to disprove the moon landing. sigh...
The ealy founding of the flat earth society dates to 1541 and The modern age of the Flat Earth Society dates back to the early 1800s, when it was founded by Samuel Birley Rowbotham, an English inventor. Samuel Rowbotham's Flat Earth views were based largely on literal interpretation of Bible passages. His system, called Zetetic Astronomy, held that the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its 'southern' edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth. After Rowbotham's death in 1884, followers of his Zetetic Astronomy founded the Universal Zetetic Society.
Flat Earth theory spread to the United States, largely in the town of Zion, Illinois where Christian Catholic Apostolic Church founder John Alexander Dowie and later Wilbur Glenn Voliva promoted Flat Earth theory. Voliva died in 1942 and the church quickly disintegrated. Flat Earthism remained in Zion, gradually becoming less popular into the 1950s.
The International Flat Earth Society was formally founded in 1956 by Samuel Shenton, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Geographic Society.
Flat Earth map from 1781
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQebvYTBRcBTzHdVAkxdAaY346yOqGcHY0H46-S36t0CZPqZFhEhgGeocentrism dates to more than 5000 years ago and was practiced around the world until 400 years ago when Sun Worship was rediscovered as a way to promote commerce.
Moon landing was in 1969 - so, sounds like you never actually research anything except the lies you were told.
This post was edited by card_sultan on Oct 31 2016 10:49am