You know why MAGATs accept and embrace the lies

[cilla4progress]

without question?

They've been brainwashed by rightwing Christianity.

Taking as literal truth the most implausible stories - Old and New Testament alike (virgin birth anyone?) softened their brains to accept the bs the GOP sends their way. It's almost like they weaponized it!

[Walleye]

1. I have always thought that, religion conditions humans for lies

The biggest lie of all is that you will have eternal life. Everybody’s going to die and it will be over. Awareness of our own mortality is what makes us human. But if you believe you’re gonna go on forever you’ll believe anything

[Funtatlaguy]

5. Yes. We lie to children about Santa Claus

saying they must be good to be rewarded by this big man that is always watching them. Same thing as religion.

[303squadron]

2. Studies have shown that

folks with strong religious convictions are more gullible than those without! If you can believe that an all loving deity would kill the innocent first born of Egypt instead of just killing the fecking Pharoah, you'll believe anything!


Logic is not their forte!

[Initech]

3. I've said for years that the merging of religion and politics is dangerous.

And now it seems like the religious people don't give a fuck that they're openly endorsing insane fringe candidates like Boebert, Greene, Gosar, Gates, etc. Madness.

[mitch96]

4. "They've been brainwashed by rightwing Christianity". Lies, lies and damn lies...

It's like the russian military culture of "Vranyo".. systemic lying.

Perun did an excellent vid on how this systemic lying and people/military just accepting it..
Rot from the inside out...
Long powerpoint presentation but worth it...
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[Skittles]

6. religion certainly is proof people can be made to believe anything

yup

[myohmy2]

7. and...

...they do stupid so well...

...for a MAGAt, stupidity is a virtue...

[303squadron]

8. The prophet: Barry Goldwater

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." ~ Barry Goldwater

[Elessar Zappa]

9. The vast majority

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of Black Americans are Democrats and are the most religious group in America. How have they avoided being brainwashed by the rightwing? I don’t think it’s related to religion.

[cilla4progress]

10. I am referring to a certain type of

"right-wing Christianity," that I think we all know when we see it?

If I'm not being clear.

There are certainly Catholics and other Christians who do not fall prey.

This, from Jimmy Carter, for example:


Jimmy Carter Leaves Southern Baptists

Oct. 20, 2000 -- Former President Carter, a longtime Sunday school teacher, is walking away from the Southern Baptists because of the church’s stance on equality for women.

In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published today, Carter says Southern Baptist leaders reading the Bible out of context led to the adoption of increasingly “rigid” views.

“I’m familiar with the verses they have quoted about wives being subjugated to their husbands,” he told the paper. “In my opinion, this is a distortion of the meaning of Scripture. … I personally feel the Bible says all people are equal in the eyes of God. I personally feel that women should play an absolutely equal role in service of Christ in the church.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95311&page=1

[Elessar Zappa]

11. Agree.

[lees1975]

18. There's a big difference between the "rightwing Christians" in the original post, which is

a conservative, fundamentalist Christianity that applies a much more literal interpretation of the Bible to their doctrine and theology, and "baptizes" politics into that perspective, and the kind of Christian expression found among Black Americans, which uses a much less literal, much more historical context to develop doctrine and doesn't wrap political positions in religious rhetoric.

Yes, a majority of Black voters are Democrats and a majority of them are Christians who belong to evangelical denominations and that, along with the fact that many Democrats belong to Evangelical churches, precludes this being a "broad brush" statement. However, there has been a strong merging of right wing political positions with right wing Christian doctrine and theology among the literalist, fundamentalist and Pentecostal/Charismatic branches of American Evangelicalism and it is most definitely a factor in the belief and acceptance of conspiracy theories. This is a branch of American Christianity that thrives on "us vs. them" persecution complex and believes that everyone else is jealous of them because they think have it right. They've baptized politics, distorting truth and subverting churches at the same time.

[Cosmocat]

26. Yeah

Good point

[Solomon]

29. Because Christianity has been hijacked into a white supremacy religion and black people are more

able to see the hypocrisy between the underlying philosophy and the way its practiced and thus moderate the discrepancies.

[Wounded Bear]

12. "Virgin birth" was not exactly a new concept when the Bible was written...

The Greek Gods were always coming down from Olympus and sleeping with human women. Apparently human women are hotter than goddesses. Hercules was the Son of Zeus and a human woman.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

13. Another round of smug anti-religious bigotry here on DU.

Oh joy!

[cilla4progress]

19. Do tell?

Please edify me on how my OP is bigoted?

[BaronChocula]

14. Because they're white nationalists who are irrationally irate

that white people alone are no longer in control the American consensus

[LudwigPastorius]

15. At its core, the MAGAt love for Trump exists...

because he reinforces their white supremacist beliefs.

[czarjak]

16. Religion and patriotism. The one-two punch of hateful ignorance.

[303squadron]

17. The people who believe without evidence (checks notes) also don't believe in evidence.

60+ court losses over the 2020 election might have convinced the half way rational that accusations are not evidence. The parallels with religion are too obvious!

[KentuckyWoman]

20. Faith of a mustard seed moves mountains.

Then came "victory Christianity" "What ye bind in the name of Jesus is bound is heaven" became "Name it to claim it".

Jesus gave me a pink Cadillac.
Jesus helped me make $Millions with (insert ponzi scheme here).
Jesus got me this 5000 sq ft house.
Jesus will give me the most beautiful children.

Then it morphs into poor or sick people just lack faith - or sin too much and get cursed. And rich people are naturally blessed by God for their righteousness.

Praise Jesus and pass the collection plate.
Sickening.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

21. they are playing the long game... don't care the quality of their candidates

only care that their side controls the courts, the legislatures, the school boards,

[Tribetime]

22. They don't want to admit they were wrong

Because that would mean they were fooled and they don't want to believe that they were fooled so they keep going along with it

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Why TFG supporters vote for TFG

Link to tweet

[Dirty Socialist]

25. THIS!

[Scrivener7]

31. It's very true, but the replies to that tweet show another reason:

these same people are not very bright. They see an army of bots out there supporting tfg and rebutting comments like this, and they think they are the smart ones in the majority.

That's one of the ways Twitter is the devil.

[live love laugh]

24. It's because they're lied to day and night by

monied interests aka Republicans who disproportionately own all forms of media.

[Cosmocat]

27. Correct

NM

[malaise]

30. and the education system

and no one has ever explained the New Deal versus neo-liberalism to them.

Ignorance always benefits the plutocrats and the dominant institutions that keep them on top..

[cilla4progress]

32. Def.

I notice so often that the underpinnings - history - the "why" is brushed over.