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Re: Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead

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Post by kohtatsu » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 12:13 PM UTC

timbit42 wrote: post #26

grawprog wrote: post #18

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The thing about bullshit detectors is, they tend to work well for most people towards things they don't feel strongly about or things they're opposed to. It's when it comes to things that validates a person's already held beliefs that the bullshit detectors tend to get inaccurate as it were. At least from what i've noticed with people anyway.

When we want to believe something we ask ourselves, "Can I believe it?" and the answer is almost always, "Yes". When we don't want to believe something we ask ourselves, "Must I believe it?", and the answer is almost always, "No".

I've been noticing this in myself, I think it's boils down to conservation of energy.

But boy could I have saved a lot of effort by spending a bit more a bit sooner to hone some beliefs.

Re: Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead

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Post by mercer » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 3:54 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #38

weare138 wrote: post #37

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I've met both kinds of Evangelicals. I think we need to figure out a term to differentiate between the normal Evangelicals and this strange subset of American Evangelicalism.

Support for Trump among Evangelicals has always remained steady at or slightly above 80%. The "strange subset" of Evangelicals are the ones who don't support him, the "normal" ones are the ones who do, by a wide margin.

agreed. The 'good kind' that I grew up with has always been a minority even within the communities we were part of.

Re: Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead

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Post by aarpmcgee » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 7:14 PM UTC

RickJWagner wrote: post #23

williamstein wrote: post #8

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The foundational principle of Christianity (in America at least, in my experience) is believe something with no evidence it is true . They call it "faith". I was raised in small town Oregon and Texas going to Christian private schools and church for years, and that "faith" thing is absolutely their central belief. I remember clearly once when I was 9 finding the whole thing deeply illogical. Later in life I got a PhD…

I'm not at all surprised your comment has been downvoted to oblivion. Such arrogance. Faith (of any kind) increases humanity.

How do you know?

Re: Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead

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Post by ffggvv » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

rbecker wrote: post #16

ffggvv wrote: post #15

i see misinformation from BLM etc every single day on twitter. how come now one cares about this misinformation or gets upset or writes articles about it?

Could you give some examples?

during the riots there was some video going around where it was dark and you could here gunshots. the caption of the video said a 12 year old unarmed girl was killed by police. prominent people were spreading it...

it turned out later that it was a 30 year old man who had just murderer someone and had a gun in his hand