I must admit, flat earth belief is incredibly bad since simply walking to a shore line can reveal the curved horizon. I am not sure banning them would be true to how we operate here. Given a capitalist approach, I would think allowing the posts, but seeing that no comments/attention given to them would be more apt?
As it stands, even early Christians new the earth to be a spherical object. Benedictus Arias Montanus translation, printed in 1528, used ‘globus’ for Isaiah 40:22. Oh, and you can also remind flat earthers of Job 26:7, that God “hangs the earth on nothing” instead of physical pillars.
But early Christian beliefs haven’t stopped Preterism. The Bible even recounts the first preterists as heretics - yet they exist on today (2 Timothy 2:17–18). I doubt it will stop flat earthers.
“I must admit, flat earth belief is incredibly bad since simply walking to a shore line can reveal the curved horizon. I am not sure banning them would be true to how we operate here. Given a capitalist approach, I would think allowing the posts, but seeing that no comments/attention given to them would be more apt?”
I disagree, I see it as no different than banning libtards, racists, and other extremists. If Free Republic simply allows anti-scientific ignorant posters to ruin the reputation of conservatives by playing right into libtard stereotypes then we will lose our identity as conservatives and undermine our own efforts. We wouldn’t allow that to happen on other matters, say someone outwardly professing to be conservative who also rants about “the jews” being the cause of every ill in the world.