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https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/downloads/Jackson%2C%20Conspiracy%20Theories%20Final.pdf
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Why is it that so many people who want black or white, all or nothing religious fundamentalism, biblical literalism, biblical inerrancy, etc., etc., are also the same people who espouse conspiracy theories such as diseases not being real, vaccines faked, subliminal messaging in adverts, fluoridation, mind and weather control, chemtrails, lizard people, UN and/or FEMA concentration camps in the de
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Sadly, as a simple web search reveals, these aren't the only ones. ########## https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/execution-stoning-christian-nationalism-1234797127/ The podcast setup at first appears familiar: a pair of white dudes, mic’d up at a table, wrestling out loud with big ideas. But the conversation between the two men veers, without guardrails, into
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Lots of news on this guy. ########## https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/r5v5vc/our_independent_women_are_more_medicated/ "Our independent women are more medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome than women need to be. Without connections to eternity delivered through their family, such women gain their meaning through their seeming participation in the global project."
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And to think there are religious fundamentalists in America who want to establish what they call "biblical law" in the USA... ########### https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogg
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What proper cult doesn't have people constantly living in fear of the end of the world? You'd almost get the impression that they were trying to pretend to be normal or something. Are you ready for Doomsday? BWWAHAHAHA... ########## https://religionnews.com/2023/01/26/for-todays-mormons-its-food-storage-lite/ For today’s Mormons, it’s Food Storage Lite From two years to o
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A college friend dared me to take the infamous personality test once — but I knew what it was. ########## https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m7v5/how-i-escaped-the-church-of-scientology When it comes to The Church of Scientology, you’ve most likely heard about both its celebrity followers and its wacky ideas about space battles (for example, Lord Xenu, the intergalactic warrior you
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I'm a film buff and I've watched lots of old movies -- including religious ones. One of the standard tropes in films like "The Robe," "Quo Vadis," "The Silver Chalice," or "Barabbas" revolves around the portrayal of early Christians as open, good, welcoming, egalitarian, and tolerant as opposed to the class and wealth conscious, snobby almost fascist power
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which is actually everyone's agenda. The preachers just need a bogeyman to generate fear. If you don't have anything to fear, they'll create something for you to fear.
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Fundies freaked out over "The Last Temptation Of Christ." This is like throwing magnesium in water or cesium in fluorine. Get the popcorn ready. ######## https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/27/martin-scorsese-fox-news-docuseries-saints The Oscar-winning film-maker Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Fox News for a new docuseries. The director, who recently s
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and my mother's father was a Presbyterian minister from a Spanish Protestant Huguenot family, mother's mother's family was Jewish.
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########## https://wapo.st/49tTGaZ Research, including new analysis from PRRI, supports the idea that Americans are becoming increasingly estranged from religious institutions and traditions. In 2013, a fifth of respondents to PRRI’s national poll indicated that they were religiously unaffiliated: atheists, agnostics or simply not part of any religious tradition. In the most recent iterat
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https://www.rawstory.com/idaho-christian-nationalism/ Idaho residents are pushing back against the Christian nationalist takeover in their state. An influx of right-wing Christians fleeing liberal states has tilted the already conservative state even further to the right, and faith leaders are worried that their neighbors are being sucked into extremism by the newcomers, reported Religion N
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I'm talking about a group of people who call themselves "christians" or "evangelicals" who seek to impose their will upon all of society. The question I'm asking is *why.* My guess is that the answer is fear, and religion is just a excuse and/or a means to an end that works in America because of a particular set of historical and legal circumstances. I've been to a ra
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63902626 New battle lines are being drawn in the US by a right-wing Christian movement set on what it sees as its divine mission - to spread its beliefs and messages using political power. So what is Christian nationalism and why is it flourishing now? Thousands of people hungry for an experience of God and longing to be free of their demons crowded
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Religion is a crap shoot when it comes to > predicting what sticks for how long. Often the > more absurd, the more people seem to believe it. +1.0*10^10
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When will the end come? Or, at what point will there no longer be any discernible difference between Mormonism and big "E" Evangelical "christianity?"
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but they seem to have a great desire to control my life and my body...
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My mother and an aunt both had cancer, nothing to joke about, best wishes to Princess Kate :)
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We don't know much about the late Western Roman Empire from non-Christian sources. There are a few, but not many. Did this happen before? I don't mean Constantine proclaiming Christianity on a top level. I mean on a local, personal level -- when the religious hierarchy became the state itself.
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