The fanatical mindset of the religious right

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The original title of this thread was "The Fanatical Mindset of the Religious Right." Then I thought of removing the word "fanatical" from the title so as not to make it seem "biased." Instead I thought to change it to "The Fanatical Mindset AMONG the Religious Right."

Finally I thought, why remove it when we have threads titled, "Why do Progressives Hate Israel..."

Besides which changing it to "among the religious right" might only serve to dilute or minimize the PERVASIVENESS of certain mindsets and notions among the religious right,

as well as the manner in which their political and politically motivated "spiritual" leaders EMPLOY such notions for the purpose of MANIPULATING and CONTROLLING their "flock"

... the power and INFLUENCE of which, cannot be overlooked or minimized IF one is to gain TRUE insight into what drives their constituency, their thinking, and makes them so obstinately INCAPABLE of understanding or acknowledging ANY rationale or reasoning coming from the left.

Case in point, THIS story of what is being said, TAUGHT, of liberals and progressives:

Dave Kubal Prays Against the Witches and 'Diabolical Power' Operating in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's District | Right Wing Watch

RW Evangelicals: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Witch or Controlled by Demons


 
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The original title of this thread was "The Fanatical Mindset of the Religious Right." Then I thought of removing the word "fanatical" from the title so as not to make it seem "biased." Instead I thought to change it to "The Fanatical Mindset AMONG the Religious Right."

Finally I thought, why remove it when we have threads titled, "Why do Progressives Hate Israel..."

Besides which changing it to "among the religious right" might only serve to dilute or minimize the PERVASIVENESS of certain mindsets and notions among the religious right,

as well as the manner in which their political and politically motivated "spiritual" leaders EMPLOY such notions for the purpose of MANIPULATING and CONTROLLING their "flock"

... the power and INFLUENCE of which, cannot be overlooked or minimized IF one is to gain TRUE insight into what drives their constituency, their thinking, and makes them so obstinately INCAPABLE of understanding or acknowledging ANY rationale or reasoning coming from the left.

Case in point, THIS story of what is being said, TAUGHT, of liberals and progressives:

Dave Kubal Prays Against the Witches and 'Diabolical Power' Operating in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's District | Right Wing Watch

RW Evangelicals: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Witch or Controlled by Demons
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...or-Controlled-by-Demons?utm_campaign=trending

The American Taliban. Plain and simple.
 
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I had often thought of creating a thread with the title “Dear Religious Right, Kindly STFU”; but, that would be un-Christian, and they already have their own 243 plus pounds of cross to bear.

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It's not fat shaming when he lies about his weight

And if anyone wants to call anyone out for fat shaming, start with Trump himself.

Any woman who doesn't have the physique of a Victoria's Secret model is a "pig" or "cow".
 

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And if anyone wants to call anyone out for fat shaming, start with Trump himself.

Any woman who doesn't have the physique of a Victoria's Secret model is a "pig" or "cow".
True that ... nad fat shaming isn't the only kind of shaming he's guilty of.
 
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Honestly, I don't think the religious right is worshipping any golden calf. Instead, I think they've made an unholy bargain with an authoritarian wanna-be dictator, and they think that as long as they get laws and court rulings along the ideological lines that they support, Mr. "Grab-'em-by-the-pussy," thrice-married, ain't-got-no-morals Trump is quite all right as a president.

Or is it not really even about what their worldview is--is it simply about power and about feeling in the majority? I'm genuinely asking.

NCbear (who's seen multiple 1940s and 1950s science fiction writers project American culture into the future; one of the more typical resulting dystopias is morally warped/twisted religious totalitarianism [as in The Handmaid's Tale])
 

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Evangelicals’ infallible new faith: The gospel of Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...angelicals-infallible-new-faith-gospel-trump/
Evangelicals have hired their own Goliath
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...4b1a86-0f90-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html

‘Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration
‘Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration

Thanks for the articles.

Just HOW bat-shit CRAZY can these people be? Hint: crazier than even I thought they were. Some of the shit listed below I didn't even KNOW of:


And then there's THIS:

The Christian conspiracies that keep evangelicals on Trump’s side - The Washington Post

The Trump Prophecy” opened in theaters this month. The film, which purports to be based on true events, depicts the story of retired firefighter-turned-political-prognosticator Mark Taylor. On April 28, 2011, Taylor claims to have received a communique from the Holy Spirit predicting that reality TV star Donald Trump would become president."


 

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Donald Trump is like a cult leader, says religious studies scholar | The Independent

"... and his supporters are reminiscent of disciples of a sect, according to a religious studies scholar.

Reza Aslan, an Iranian-American author, said he was using the word cult in the “pejorative sense” and argued [Trumps] supporters were united by a fanatical devotion to their leader.

Aslan, who is a creative writing professor at the University of California, Riverside, said the intense sentiments expressed by ... Trump’s support base shared more parallels with religion than politics.

“Trump has harnessed the kind of emotional intensity from his base that is more typical of a religious revival meeting than a political rally, complete with ritualized communal chants ('Lock her up!'),” the academic said in an Op-Ed for the LA Times.

He added: “I use the word 'cult' in its pejorative sense, meaning a deeply insular social group bound together by extreme devotion to a charismatic leader. Such groups tend to exhibit a few common characteristics. They are usually formed around an individual whom they’ve elevated to prophetic and near divine status.”

"Aslan argued Mr Trump’s barbed and frequent attacks on the mainstream media, which he notoriously disparages as purveyors of “fake news”, were yet another example of his cult-like tendencies."

“The authority that a cult leader exercises comes from his self-ascribed role as the one true information source for his followers. Competing ideas and facts are not just wrong; they are demonic,” writes the academic."

"Aslan also referenced a number of President Trump’s Christian supporters, recalling the time during the campaign that Franklin Graham, Mr Trump’s most enthusiastic evangelical Christian supporter, launched into a favourable comparison between him and Abraham, Moses, and David.

He also drew attention to the time Frank Amedia, an Ohio pastor who briefly had ties to the Trump campaign, explicitly cast the president as a prophet receiving divine revelations. He said: “I believe he receives downloads that now he’s beginning to understand come from God”."


 
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