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14-10-2025, 12:12 PM
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People Are Genuinely Confused How MAGA Christians Justify Their Behavior, And This New Term Explains Everything
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/vert...02209.html
Read the article rather than watch the video.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Interesting article and theory. It also explains how the MAGAs can regard 'woke' attitudes as a negative when empathy, inclusiveness and social conscience, which those anti-woke ideologists are counter to, are essentially backbone philosophies for many mainstream Christian religions.
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I think it comes down to being able to somehow hold two opposing views at the same time.
Their religion tells them to help others, & also tells them to kill their enemies.
Humans are weird & we can apparently get ourselves to believe anything at all.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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It does some good but it also does a hell of a lot of bad.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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(15-10-2025, 02:48 PM)Agent_24 Wrote: (15-10-2025, 02:31 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: It does some good but it also does a hell of a lot of bad.
As far as I can see, the cognitive dissonance required to believe in religion despite all the evidence against it impairs critical thinking abilities, making believers more susceptible to other nonsense beliefs, like MAGA-ism
That's why I find it easier - & perhaps healthier - to continue on down the road of being an unrepentant heathen..
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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