{"id":13138,"date":"2021-03-07T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T15:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2021-03-07T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T15:45:31","slug":"when-cults-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13138","title":{"rendered":"When cults collide"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you know? There is a lot of overla<\/a>p between the Jesus-cult and the QAnon-cult — and Holy Men ain’t likin’ it.<\/p>\n

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The American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, reported in February that more than a quarter of white evangelicals believe the QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that a cabal of powerful politicians run a global child sex trafficking ring, is \u201cmostly\u201d or \u201ccompletely\u201d accurate. The rate was the highest of any religious group. The same survey indicated that 3 in 5 white evangelicals believe Biden\u2019s win was \u201cnot legitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

A poll released this year from Nashville-based Lifeway Research, an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, indicated that 49% of Protestant pastors often hear congregants repeating conspiracies about national events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This should not surprise anybody; once reality has been abandoned, one goofy, implausible story is as good as some other goofy, implausible story.<\/p>\n

I used to think that the evangelical affection for Trump signified that one cult had somehow displaced another; that was wrong, and rested upon the subterranean assumption that there is a finite amount of crazy that can occupy any one head. No. I now think that the people who can’t see the crazy in any one story can’t see the conflict with the other crazy stories in their head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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