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It's almost a joke that flat eartherism and mental illness are the same thing. How often have we compared even the most mentally ill people who have severe depression or schizophrenia favorably with someone who believes in flat earth? Flat earth is the epitome of what it means to believe some in spite of evidence. That being said, is there a corrolation between mental illness and the modern flat earth movement? Of course. I'll give a few examples of leaders in the flat earth movement who have a very... loose grasp on reality. William Schoebelen has been around since the early days of the satanic panic in the 1980's. He's had a lot of jobs which range from head witch of a massive druid cult to satanic high priest to secret agent of the Illuminati.  This was all before he was a christian of course, and now he travels the country and preaches on how Jesus can save our children from satanic secular child rapists, or something like that.   https://www.youtube.com

Flat Earth Crazy: Scientism Exposed One of the most popular recruiting tools for the flat earth community is the Robbie Davidson movie "Scientism Exposed." This movie has been posted to youtube for free and the flat earth community has been pushed for recognition all across the web. Not surprisingly, its a cesspool of fundamentalist slogans from the creationist movement, half assed conspiracy theories and bizarre claims. Robbie Davidson The movie was directed, produced and narrated by Robbie Davidson, a leading "light" in the flat earth community. Davidson, has been a fundamentalist since he was a very young man and doesn't seem to have ever questioned or even thought critically about his beliefs. He was deeply influenced by Kent Hovind, a well known tax protestor and pseudo scientific crazy person. Of course, Hovind is considered a scientific genius by the flat earth community. Hovind's influence is important because despi

A Review Of FEIC 2017 Late last year the first flat earth conference in at least several thousand years was held in North Carolina and attracted several hundred people. Included in the speakers line up were several well known names on this blog, Robbie Davidson, Rob Skiba, Mark Sargent and others. The conference was an insightful event for those interested in the psychology of flat eartherism and was halfway interesting to watch. Rob Skiba, one of the more important flat earth proponents, gave an incredibly boring speech which was almost entirely a rehash of stuff hes already said. To be fair, Skiba had said that he wasn't going to be putting too much work into his presentation because he was going to focus on his new project, a TV series called "seed" which is supposed to be the "Christian X-files." That being said, almost none of the conference had anything even tangentially new. The same old claims of being able to see things that were under

Kent Hovind is crazy and evil Kent Hovind used to be world famous. He traveled all over the country speaking 900 times a year, mostly to churches and on radio shows, and gave a rehashed version of Henry Morris's speeches. He was also into conspiracy theories. Like, REALLY into conspiracy theories. So much so that he began to have trouble with the law when he adopted sovereign citizen strategies. Kent Hovind Kent is pretty typical of deranged fundamentalist, conspiratorial Christians. He is obsessed with the KJV only theory and regularly mocks his fellow Christians who do not hold to his version of the bible. He is enraged by having to pay any small amount to the federal government, or large amount considering he currently owes 3 million dollars to the feds. He is also an adherent to an extreme and small faction of baptists who hold to a view known as "easy believism." This view basically teaches that as long as you pray a prayer, one time in your life

Flat Earth Stupidity: Rob Skiba In the last few years there has been a resurgence of the long discredited cosmology of the "flat earth." The term "flat earth" is actually a little misleading. The movement actually focuses around ancient Jewish and near east conceptions of the world which is close to a gigantic snow globe. Unsurprisingly, they are almost entirely made up of extreme Christian fundamentalists or new age weirdos heavily influenced by gnostic and occult texts from the near east. The Flat Earth Model Foremost among these people is a man by the name of Rob Skiba. Skiba was the darling of the "prophecy in the news" crowd with the likes of Tom Horne and Steve Quayle until he was gradually ostricized because of his increasingly extreme theological views. Skiba started in the KJV only movement (which is already one of the most looney movements out there) and slowly slid into extreme hebrew roots theology, bizarre and uni