Lisa Jones wrote on Dec 16
th, 2022 at 2:35pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 16
th, 2022 at 2:14pm:
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Dec 16
th, 2022 at 2:13pm:
We're beginning to hear the Usual Suspect stories.... ....
Yep.
Baptist Church.
Anti-vaxxers.
The warning signs were there.
Has anyone seen Sir lastnail?
WTF??
Baptist Church? You find being Baptist a red flag?
Never Muslims....but Baptists???
You want to have another think about that Greg?
Note to everyone else : Baptists are like Presbyterians and Methodists....pretty much like Anglicans. Both brothers who became murderers were problem kids and rebels who left the Baptist Church. Their parents and 2 other siblings remained in the Baptist Church. I think it's religious thinking in general. The notion that there is no proof therefore you MUST believe. If you can't believe without proof you don't have faith, and that's a sin.
We can see in the US how this mentality of belief first, facts never, can result in things like shootings in pizza parlors or domestic terrorists storming the capitol.
Religious leaders often foster this way of "thinking" from young, in children defenseless to the brainwashing which lets them be exploited by those within the church, or those like the tards behind the Q larp.
It's not to say parishioners as individuals are bad or evil, often far from it given some of the good they can do within their communities, but they're ripe for radicalisation, be it via their faith or some tool bag on the Internet spinning an easy to understand explanation about why there are contrails behind a passenger jet that doesn't involve differences in air pressure or condensation in the air and is instead a secret Government mind control project that is much easier to understand for those failed by the education system. Then it's just a quick pivot to "the jews are behind it" and they're signing up for the Proud Boys.
The reader already believes and then goes looking for proof, rather than discovering a fact and letting that guide their opinions.
This is when we get photos of the interior of water bombing planes being shared as proof of chemtrails.
They already believe first, they have the "faith", and then go looking for proof, like "miracles", and because they already believe they're right, anything can be proof.
And anything that doesn't support what they believe is easily dismissed as part of the conspiracy, "what they want you to believe", or fake news etc.
It is sadly, in this day and age with so many people willing to exploit others for profit, religiosity is a red flag, some worse than others, but none great.