platygaeanism

noun

Etymology

From platy- + Gaea + -an + -ism.

Definitions

  1. The belief that the Earth's shape is a plane or disk.

    • It should be clear that my presentation of platygaeanism is *much* more cogent and intelligent than anything creationists or astrologers have been able to come up with.
    • According to Ron Numbers's _The Creationists_, geocentrism remained common among Missouri synod Lutherans until about a century ago (and still has followers in various sects). Platygaeanism had its adherents until recently, at least.
    • All that site did list were a few people that I thought existed already followed by a posse of perfectly understandable reasons for me to have believed in Catholic Platygæanism at least until now.

The neighborhood

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