joelr
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This country is being torn apart by people who believe in the Q Conspiracy Theories. More important to many on RF, Christianity is being torn apart by people who believe in the Q Conspiracy Theories.
QAnon: The alternative religion that’s coming to your church
QAnon: The alternative religion that’s coming to your church
Teaching susceptible Christians media literacy won’t counteract their sudden, widespread adherence to conspiracy theories because these Christians thrive on a narrative of media cover-up.
August 17, 2020
By
Katelyn Beaty
(RNS) — It’s a rough time to be a pastor. An election year, national racial unrest and a global pandemic each challenged the usual methods of ministry. Taken together, many church leaders are facing the traditional post-vacation ingathering season with a serious case of burnout.
But there’s another challenge that pastors I spoke with say is on the rise in their flocks. It is taking on the power of a new religion that’s dividing churches and hurting Christian witness.
Mark Fugitt, senior pastor of Round Grove Baptist Church in Miller, Missouri, recently sat down to count the conspiracy theories that people in his church are sharing on Facebook. The list was long. It included claims that 5G radio waves are used for mind control; that George Floyd’s murder is a hoax; that Bill Gates is related to the devil; that masks can kill you; that the germ theory isn’t real; and that there might be something to Pizzagate after all.
“You don’t just see it once,” said Fugitt. “If there’s ever anything posted, you’ll see it five to 10 times. It’s escalating for sure.”
As Carrier says, people are building worldviews on mythologies. Critical thinking and philosophies that relate to real world situations are not being taught to children. Religious thinking is actually part of the problem. People need to build world views out of evidence and rational thinking. We are seeing people leave religions and latch on to these weird "jiggered" world views. But philosophy has become this "ivory tower" that turns people away from it.
Don't take my word for it Carrier says it better, this is very insightful, especially how we are now often using current fiction as source of morals.
start at 50:16