I dunno. What I've noticed about true believers is that they aren't easily swayed by words -- in fact, they're very good at explaining potentially disagreeable facts away. My personal experience is more with anti-vaxxers and chemtrail aficionados but the MAGA phenomenon seems related. And I can't begin to understand the theology driving …
I dunno. What I've noticed about true believers is that they aren't easily swayed by words -- in fact, they're very good at explaining potentially disagreeable facts away. My personal experience is more with anti-vaxxers and chemtrail aficionados but the MAGA phenomenon seems related. And I can't begin to understand the theology driving the devotion of so many white evangelical Christians to Trump. It has something to do with the Second Coming and/or the Rapture, but that's as far as I get.
Seems like a strange irony is at play with the evangelicals, the folks who eschew elites while themselves believing they are a special elite who will be swooped up to Heaven if only the right abortion and homosexual hating messianic world leader can foul things up in the ME enough to cause the destruction and end of this world. Only they, the so-called pro-lifers who want all life to end, will be allowed into the heavenly gated community.
Heh. I do like "the so-called pro-lifers who want all life to end." Well put. It would be fun if they wound up in the same paradise as the Muslim men looking for their 72 virgins, but I'm pretty sure I won't be there to see it.
I dunno. What I've noticed about true believers is that they aren't easily swayed by words -- in fact, they're very good at explaining potentially disagreeable facts away. My personal experience is more with anti-vaxxers and chemtrail aficionados but the MAGA phenomenon seems related. And I can't begin to understand the theology driving the devotion of so many white evangelical Christians to Trump. It has something to do with the Second Coming and/or the Rapture, but that's as far as I get.
Seems like a strange irony is at play with the evangelicals, the folks who eschew elites while themselves believing they are a special elite who will be swooped up to Heaven if only the right abortion and homosexual hating messianic world leader can foul things up in the ME enough to cause the destruction and end of this world. Only they, the so-called pro-lifers who want all life to end, will be allowed into the heavenly gated community.
Heh. I do like "the so-called pro-lifers who want all life to end." Well put. It would be fun if they wound up in the same paradise as the Muslim men looking for their 72 virgins, but I'm pretty sure I won't be there to see it.
They hate the same people. I know them