A new study has found that both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism are independently associated with a greater tendency to believe in conspiracy theories. When people believed in both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism, their distrust of government officials increased significantly. The findings, published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, provide insight into the sociocultural factors that contribute to the spread and persistence of conspiracy beliefs in certain populations. ...
I personally have no idea how Christian nationalism is even a popular thing in the US.
For all the “Founding Father” bullshit some of them spout, their heads would explode if they met Thomas Jefferson. Dude hated the Church so much he wrote his own Bible.
Religious persecution was one of the things that influenced their decision to declare independence and they explicitly didn’t want US citizens to feel that same sense of persecution.
That was the whole point of Jefferson’s “wall of separation between Church and State”.
Yeah, have they heard of Thomas Paine either? He pokes so many holes in the Bible just be comparing the gospels and using logic. You can’t take it literally after reading his work lol.
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I personally have no idea how Christian nationalism is even a popular thing in the US.
For all the “Founding Father” bullshit some of them spout, their heads would explode if they met Thomas Jefferson. Dude hated the Church so much he wrote his own Bible.
Religious persecution was one of the things that influenced their decision to declare independence and they explicitly didn’t want US citizens to feel that same sense of persecution.
That was the whole point of Jefferson’s “wall of separation between Church and State”.
These people live in a reality far from our own.
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Yeah, have they heard of Thomas Paine either? He pokes so many holes in the Bible just be comparing the gospels and using logic. You can’t take it literally after reading his work lol.
Read up on the American Civil Religion and you’ll have a whole new understanding of how it all comes together.