The cultural divide is based upon belief, primarily, and belief is based upon information, which to some extent is based upon education. Those with no education and who make the choice to ignore good information in lieu of conspiracy theory, are the ones being led astray. That’s the essence of the culture war and how and why right-wing media stays in business. There is a large herd of sheep in the electorate and the right-wing wolves want to steer their thought in order to control them and the way they vote.

This is the underlying motivation behind the demonization of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the transformation of the coronavirus pandemic from a public health crisis to a political battleground. Here’s the latest.

And people believe that microchipping is a means of control, leading to the theories about the mark of the beast prophecy and the coming of the end times.

We have our phones and we have our chipped ATM and credit cards. If they want to avoid the mark of the beast, throw away the cards and the cell phones. What’s the likelihood of that happening?

Just this morning, another clip showing the demonic 666 connection.

Isn’t that wonderful that you can repent of the vaccine and you can die? Yahoo News:

“I think that Christians, especially evangelicals, are very nervous about the government. They’ve always been nervous about the government,” said Ryan Burge, an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, who studies the intersection between religiosity and political behavior. Burge is also a pastor at First Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, Ill., which he described as a “main-line … moderate version of Baptist.” He told Yahoo News that “if you get really deep into evangelical theology, you can see that they have a martyr complex.”

“They love the idea that they’re being oppressed, and that they’re being persecuted,” he said, adding that evangelicals are “always on the lookout for times when the government sort of oversteps its bounds and starts to infringe upon religion.”

Jared Yates Sexton, an associate professor of writing and linguistics at Georgia Southern University, described his religious upbringing as “a split between Baptist and Pentecostals.” He also emphasized the role persecution and martyrdom continue to play in the evangelical identity, “even though they have a large power base in America, and they’ve determined large swaths of American political history.”

In fact, Sexton suggested that “one of the reasons why they have the dedicated political base that they do and … why they support [Trump] the way they do is because they truly believe they’re engaged in an end-times war, and everything from ‘happy holidays’ to vaccinations extends from that.”

Evangelical support for Trump, and Popham’s enthusiasm for the president, is undiminished — even though he has been an advocate for rapid development and deployment of a coronavirus vaccine, which he has speculated could be ready by the end of the year, much sooner than many medical experts believe.

“The idea is that the Christian faith is being persecuted or being oppressed, particularly by state, or by outsiders and conspiracies,” said Sexton, suggesting that the coronavirus, and the suspicions it has raised, particularly within the evangelical community, is the latest iteration of the ongoing “culture war.”

Sexton said that since the start of the pandemic, he’s observed what he described as the “quick radicalization” of several family members and childhood friends taking place within his own Facebook feed.

“I’m seeing a lot of people who, in the past, I would’ve characterized as mildly conservative, who are now embracing extreme views,” he said. “I think that the pandemic has not only brought up the narrative of the end times and conspiracies against Christians, but it’s also led to people looking for something to give them an answer, because obviously the government hasn’t done it.”

Popham, who listed QAnon, a fringe internet conspiracy theory, and the far-right One America News Network (as well as the BBC) among her go-to sources for information online, said her views on the coronavirus pandemic are rooted in long-held concerns about the “deep state,” which she said is basically the “one world order.” Though she said she’s been spending more time online during the current lockdown, she said social media hasn’t so much influenced her views as it has “confirmed them,” indicating she’s observed that many more friends, members of her church and her Republican women’s group have started posting things that align with her beliefs.

Never thought I would live to see this level of stupidity in America, but here we are. Right-wing media embraces fear of the government. That’s why it embraced Trump, he was the courageous outsider who was going to go in and clean house. Right.

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11 COMMENTS

  1. And the “Rapture” is a way to get to their imagined heaven without actually having to die – they’re really afraid of dying. Any heaven full of these people is one I don’t want to be in: they’re all going to be mindless slaves to their deity, and they *want* that.

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    • I’ve noticed that. I worked a construction job and there were a couple of evang employees. Every f*cking time I’d turn around they’d be on their knees doing WTF all…except what they were being PAID to do. I still remember this one day when there was a loud explosion (car backfiring FFS). You’d have thought there was a mass shooting going on looking at those two. I thought they’d sh*t themselves. When they were coherent again, or as coherent as they could be, I asked them “what are you so frightened of, dying? Why? I thought x-tians always said dying was the best day of their lives what with thinking they’re going to heaven and all”.

      They were not amused. I sure as f*ck was tho’.

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      • Christians are not afraid of death, but x-tians are a different story. “to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far” (From Philippians 1).

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  2. I should start putting these anti-vaccine idiots in touch with my Texas cousin, He could then verify for them that although he has taken the vaccine, it has not affected his idiotic worldview or GQP party beliefs one iota. He’s just as willfully ignorant and deluded as he has always been.

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  3. You know, it takes the special kind of stupid that infects evangelical “Christians” who live in a country that basically rolls over for Christianity (you don’t see too many schools shutting down for Yom Kippur or Hanukkah and you don’t really hear too many retail clerks uttering “Eid Mubarak” for Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr but heaven forfend that a store requests its employees wish “Happy Holidays” especially when Diwali and/or Hanukkah fall around Christmas) but who constantly feel that they’re suffering some massive persecution.

    First thing I want to do after a working time machine is built is to take every last one of these privileged a-holes and send them back to Rome around the early 2nd and 3rd centuries so they could see what REAL persecution looks like. (The really sad thing? I’m pretty sure most of them would come back without learning a damned thing from the experience–mainly because the ones who learned their lesson would’ve probably been killed by the gladiators or the wild beasts in the arena.)

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  4. According to the bible, God created man (and woman). If he had wanted sheeple, thats what he would have created. Instead, he created humans with free will and (some of) whom with the proper education could tell right from wrong, and think critically. Here is something to think about. God created the church as a place of worship and redemption. Man created religion to control and take advantage of his fellow man.

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  5. Dear Ghu, these people are *gullible*.
    I don’t think they have a clue that “quantum copper dots” don’t exist, and that they wouldn’t be in vaccines.

  6. I love the ‘quantum copper dots’ – quanta are energy levels and nothing to do with copper (or dotty people).

    I’m reminded of the old quote “If you think you’re beginning to understand quantuim theory, go and read the books again” because whoever came up with that doozy hasn’t a clue about any part of it

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  7. How do they reconcile copper dots and magnetism?
    What a mishmash of conflicting theories. Their only correlation is that they are all believed by rudderless empty vessels in an endlessly futile search for “Meaning,” preferably doled out by an autocratic conman.

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  8. Two things come to mind when I hear about all this microchip crap … the vaccine is delivered with a super fine needle, all the better to deliver the vaccine to the muscles deep below the skin not just under it, a usable microchip would have to deliver a LOT of information about the person carrying it, to think those fine people injecting millions of doses all over the country have just the right one for you is butt stupid …

    Get a life, get vaccinated, sit down and STFUP …

  9. The needle that inserts a pet microchip is so large and painful that most vets prefer to do it while the pet is under anesthesia for something else.
    The whole nanobot thing is a complete misreading of nanoparticles.
    Etc.

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