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A reminder that no one in Mediterranean antiquity believed that the Earth was flat, the Ptolemaic systems presupposes a round Earth surrounded by other interlocked spheres, and there is no description of the Earth in the Bible but poetical sketches (that one can find in every kind of literature from every age). Writing "where were you, when I laid the pillars of the Earth?" read more epic and intense than "where were you, when I created the Earth?". In the same way, a contemporary writer would write, "in that very moment, the sun started to set" even if we know that the sun does not set.
So, unless one is an Evangelical, which is a problem in itself, there is no religious reason to insist that the Earth is flat.
What other reasons there could be? A love for complot? In my opinion, it is a ploy to poison the waters. In that way, "complotists" can be targeted as stupid people and never listened to even when they say the truth.
