This is, very simply, child abuse.

This is layered... Not only will the kids grow up incorrectly believing that the earth is flat, they are also going to grow up resenting people that disagree with what their parents say, eventually they may even resent their parents for forcing their false beliefs on them and making them look foolish in front of their peers.

I babysat a girl who came to me and asked if atoms were really little crosses, like her grandmother taught her. She was confused because the teacher at school was saying something different

I told her to listen to her teacher

All of this effort just to teach your kids... flat earth?! Could've been spent to teach them gardening, electronics, paintings, literally anything else would've been more useful for the child's future.

Reminds me of when I started going to public school and learned about evolution, something my Evangelical parents always taught me was a lie.

Thankfully my education broke me out of that, but it put me behind a little bit.

Forgetting to model Great A’Tuin and simplyfing the 4 elephants to be “pillars” … that’s just lazy parenting.

But how would the flat earth get between the floating moon sun orbs to make an eclipse?

I've tried this experiment in Blender by projecting a NASA earth texture onto a circular plane to see if I could even come up with something where the day/night solstice/equinox cycles make any kind of sense, couldn't make it work.

I do think that if you really wanted to upset these folks, though, you'd insist that Australia is actually at the center of the earth.

Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?

Man this is just sad

So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?

They're purposely making their kid retard so she can collect disability all her life and not have to work

You mean to say this horror story has a part 2? :(

Serious question, what do the pillars stand on in this concept? Are there other planets? So many questions

IRL Wimp Lo.

Empty toilet paper rolls support the whole flat earth. Big toilet paper doesn't want us to know.

Can we talk about the "map" itself for a moment? They traced a map on a light board to cut out the continents and this abomination is the best they could do?

Is there a badparents Lemmy group?

I thought this was a joke.

Edit: I mean, the whole flat earth movement thing. I'm realizing now, that these people are serious...

I always wondered...if the earth is flat then what's on the under side? Why haven't we need able to dig a hole all the way through? Is this all because these people can't get their heads around how gravity works? Why is earth the only flat planet?