• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t mistake bad faith arguments with beliefs.

    They believe in acquiring power in any way necessary. For most, that means pandering to their constituents, which means saber rattling for MAGA.

    Just like you can’t take the religious right for their “beliefs” either. They are just exploiting a rabid easily rallied base.

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      1 year ago

      Nothing tells me someone has a very specific bone to pick more than jumping to blaming the Republicans on Christianity. It’s putting the cart before the horse, and taking too much of what they say at face value. Remembering, of course, they’re all pathological liars.

      It’s kind of depressing to know even some people on the left haven’t figured out yet who these fuckers actually are. Religion is not at their core, nor is conservativism, not even nationalism. Those are all just addons.

      It’s pure, uncut selfishness, greed, and hate. All other belief systems are erected on top of that as needed, and often interchangeably.

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        It is a core feature of most religions that

        1. There are hidden forces at work in the world
        2. The workings of these hidden forces are more important than the processes we can see, and follow a grand plan

        This belief is strikingly similar to conspiratorial worldviews, and the likelihood of subscribing to QAnon and other conspiracy theories rises substantially with increasing religiosity.

        They’re not the same thing, but they are definitely related