one kind of dumbass will also be another kind of dumbass. worth knowing, but not especially surprising
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“We were surprised at the effect sizes we observed. When occurring together, biblical literalism and Christian nationalism had a much stronger effect than well-established predictors of conspiracy thinking, like education,” Walker said. “It’s also important not to lump all religious activity together — religious service attendance was consistently associated with less conspiracy thinking.”
I do find it interesting that attending church is associated with decreased conspiratorial thinking. I also find it hilarious that all those hypocrites out there are making their whole identities around being Christians and they don't even go to church.
The congregation providing a sanity check against crazy. Why social media bubbles are so bad.
I personally have no idea how Christian nationalism is even a popular thing in the US.
For all the "Founding Father" bullshit some of them spout, their heads would explode if they met Thomas Jefferson. Dude hated the Church so much he wrote his own Bible.
Religious persecution was one of the things that influenced their decision to declare independence and they explicitly didn't want US citizens to feel that same sense of persecution.
That was the whole point of Jefferson's "wall of separation between Church and State".
These people live in a reality far from our own.
Read up on the American Civil Religion and you'll have a whole new understanding of how it all comes together.
Yeah, have they heard of Thomas Paine either? He pokes so many holes in the Bible just be comparing the gospels and using logic. You can't take it literally after reading his work lol.
When you believe in magic you're more likely to believe in magical bullshit that can't be explained logically or scientifically.
I grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist church (similar vibe to Mormon and Jehovah's Witnesses) and they are big on Bible is literally all true, they're usually pacifist , but even their founding fathers had some Catholic church will kill us all they're the Antichrist conspiracy theories and it's definitely big in the church - being a small closed community, it's automatically a - we are a small group with the truth and everyone else are sheep