Not even Satan deceives people for no reason, Dave.
Further, Satan is not a magician. He cannot maintain such a colossal, omni-national, multigeneration conspiracy.
How do you know this?
You think Satan is the one who came up with the theory of evolution?
Or are you just giving Satan generalized credit for everything false and evil?
David, this is literally crazy talk. You need to seriously get back to thinking biblically. Do not hold to any doctrine that the bible does not affirmatively support. There is zero chance that any such deception could be accomplished and this thread has proven (I (and others) really have proven it, Dave) that this flat Earth crap is silly nonsense. The world very simply would not look the way it does if the world was flat. If there's any deception going on, it's with you and other flat-earthers. And isn't it more plausible that some relatively small number of otherwise well-meaning people have allowed faulty arguments (and outright lies) to cloud their judgment and lead them to a false conclusion? That would be an easy deception for even regular human beings to pull off, never mind the Father of Lies
There's an old book that was first published in 1841 that you should read. It's called
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. The Kindle version is practically free. It's a history book all about different episodes in history where whole masses of people went a little kookoo and, of course, how the madness came crashing down. I was turned onto that book by Bob Enyart, who, if I remember the story correctly, was told to read it by an atheist who thought that Christianity was one of world extraordinary popular delusions. The problem for the atheist was that the author was a Christian and Bob actually read the book, which, rather than being an argument against Christianity, proved to be the opposite (not overtly but by implication). The kind of lies we are discussing here cannot persist. Such lies fall apart under their own weight. They are defeated by the very nature of reality itself and their opposition to it.
There was a time when the flat Earth model was conventional wisdom and it was not usurped by contrivance and conspiracy or a meaningless deception· of the devil but by the nature of reality itself. We know that the Earth is not flat in much the same way that we know how to make plastic, which almost no one knows how to make themselves or that many decreases are caused by germs that most people have never seen and have no direct evidence for. There is no more evidence that the Globe Earth Model is a deception than there is that medical science is a lie. There is, in fact, a mountain of evidence to the contrary and the conventional wisdom that was the flat Earth model as well as the theory of the 'Four Humours' were both usurped by a careful investigation into the nature of the reality around us.
Clete