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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
1. and they are willing to "believe" a lot of wacky far out shit.
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 11:38 AM
Sep 2021

One of my main gripes about religion is that it conditions people to accept some far out shit in order to belong to the club. Believing that angels knocked up a virgin or that some dude lived in a whale's belly, makes other things like magnetic vaccines and lizard people more plausible. Religion trains people to be stupid and believe nonsense.

Doc Sportello

(7,486 posts)
4. You got it all wrong
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 11:56 AM
Sep 2021

It wasn't a whale; it was a big fish. Which makes a lot more sense. At least that's what they say.

lindysalsagal

(20,581 posts)
5. I'm done with the "religion can be helpful sometimes" crap. Their charity work is usually
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 11:57 AM
Sep 2021

conditional. Do good works for your fellow humans, instead of attempting to suck up to the invisible piece of shit sky god.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
2. Why has QAnon attracted so many white evangelicals?
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 11:40 AM
Sep 2021

Because Russia/Putin/Fox News (and the like) has targeted both groups with misinformation on various internet
sites and TV/radio in order to cause division and social unrest in America. Besides many white right wing evangelicals
have come to see Trump as a deity installed by God just like the QAnon people too.

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