A Former Atheist Leader Now Runs a Crazy Flat Earth-Promoting Website

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September 17, 2016
by Hemant Mehta

Reader VZ was getting some groceries in Pennsylvania when he saw this gem in the parking lot:



That glorious vehicle says “YHWHsFlatEarth.com” along with “✅MATE atheist.” It also claims that the website has “200 PROOFS EARTH NOT A GLOBE.”

Do you want to check it out? Of course you do. (Be warned: The site is the modern day Time Cube.)

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But it was easy to go a step further. The site makes frequent reference to a “Pastor Ernest” and includes his email and phone number. (Domain registration information confirms all that.) If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Ernest Perce V was the former Pennsylvania State Director of American Atheists and anti-Muslim bigot who later converted to Christianity.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/09/17/a-former-atheist-leader-now-runs-a-crazy-flat-earth-promoting-website/


Followers of Ernest may recall the following:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/121811954

http://www.democraticunderground.com/121836142

http://www.democraticunderground.com/121836393

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218166604

[Jim__]

1. Is the earth actually flat?

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[struggle4progress]

2. "I felt a sudden need for more attention -- and then I got this idea!"

[OriginalGeek]

3. Looks like converting to Christianity

Did this guy no favors.

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4. Considering where he started from, lunacy was his destination.

[OriginalGeek]

5. Lol sure

I'm willing to bet de-converting contributes more to the halt of lunacy than converting does.

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6. I'm willing to bet he was raised in a religion, deconverted, then went entirely off the rails.

[OriginalGeek]

7. Well, at least

He had a few good years in there

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8. This was the highlight of his foray into reason:

It all started with a Halloween parade in which Ernest Perce V, head of the state chapter of American Atheists, marched as "Zombie Mohammed" -- with turban, fake beard, and chants of "I am the prophet Mohammed, zombie from the dead." (A fellow atheist activist was "Zombie Pope.&quot An offended Muslim immigrant, Talaag Elbayomy, approached Perce and threatened to call the police, apparently believing that such blasphemy was against the law; Perce claims Elbayomy spun him around and grabbed his neck while trying to pull off his beard and his "Mohammed of Islam" sign. Elbayomy was charged with harassment.

[OriginalGeek]

9. Oh is that why he's called an anti-Muslim bigot?

Is that really anti-Muslim? Or just anti-Islam?

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12. Is this really antisemitic?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218166604

Or just anti-Judaism?

[OriginalGeek]

13. seems to me he objected to the symbol

based on the school district's published rules. Granted, I only read a little of it but I didn't see him hating on Jewish people for being Jewish.

[cleanhippie]

10. yet another downside to religious belief.

Is there even an upside?

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11. Dressing up as zombie Mohammed is only a step away from this.