> These movements are non - existant in France
I think they exist but just have a different flavor. In the U.S. we have Christian extremists, in France you have Muslim extremists.
Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference
by BrandoElFollito on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:20AM
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Sure, there are religious extremists (and we painfully felt it ove the terrorist attacks).
I was talking about either flat earth, or the idea that earth is young. These are concepts which are completely foreign to France and not even carried by the religious extremists (maybe someone is telling this, but they have zero traction).
Specifically, I was commenting on
> one of the reasons that the secular world is having such a hard time effectively resisting these movements
It depends on the country. These movements are non - existant in France for instance. When we hear of them or is usually about the ones in the US (I do not think I heard about another country).
When we hear of them it is because something happened (the death of one of the leaders who blew up in his rocket IIRC), never because we have a hard time resisting them.
Out of curiosity I search in French for flat earth. All the hits are about the US (and sometimes UK) based movement.
This is the same for the young earth one, and creationism generally speaking.
But fear not, we have homeopathy as a national sport (and plenty of other alternative "medicine", taken seriously here)