#Religion

J. J. Benítez's 1983 book El Ovni de Belén applies UFO hermeneutics to the Matthean star and Nativity tradition—later echoed in Caballo de Troya 12: Belén (2022)—a documented Spanish interpretive claim inside Catholic-vs-ufology culture wars, not an astronomical proof that the Magi tracked a spaceship.

In 1980 J. J. Benítez published Los astronautas de Yahvé, reading Yahweh encounters and Old Testament wonders as astronautic theophany—a documented paleocontact thesis that prefigures his later interview line of Jesús as 'gran extraterrestre' and the Caballo de Troya theological science fiction.

Robbie Davidson’s Celebrate Truth staged the first Flat Earth International Conference on 9–10 Nov 2017 near Raleigh–Cary, North Carolina, with later U.S. dates including Dallas 14–15 Nov 2019; speakers such as Mark Sargent, Rob Skiba, Bob Knodel, and Jeran Campanella turned ticketed halls into the post-YouTube movement’s IRL evidence ecosystem.

Robert Sungenis and collaborators published multi-volume *Galileo Was Wrong* arguing scientific, historical, and scriptural geocentrism; author blogs continue the defense; the 1992 papal Galileo address is the official text both sides cite; film and skeptical-press reception document a living dispute. Contested/L2 HOLD: document texts and reception; do not baptize geocentrism as true; refuse science-dismiss baptism.

Wilbur Glenn Voliva, General Overseer of Zion, Illinois’s Christian Catholic community, preached a flat Earth in *Leaves of Healing*, directed church schools against globular astronomy, and broadcast on station WCBD beginning in 1923. Commerce Department and Federal Radio Commission monitoring treated WCBD as a sectarian specialty station. Digitized Zion serials and radio-history research doors document that institutional reception under contested clearance; the page refuses science-dismiss baptism.

A major flat-Earth faction reads Genesis 1, Job, and Psalms as a literal vaulted firmament over a stationary plane; public voices include Rob Skiba (TestingTheGlobe; FEIC; d. 13 Oct 2021), pastor Dean Odle, Edward Hendrie’s The Greatest Lie on Earth, and Zen Garcia’s Firmament (2016).