Monday, August 30, 2021

Why Some White Evangelical Republicans Are So Opposed To The COVID-19 Vaccine | FiveThirtyEight

… The belief that God controls everything that happens in the world is a core tenet of evangelicalism — 84 percent of white evangelicals agreed with this statement in PRRI polling from 2011, while far fewer nonwhite, non-evangelical Christians shared this belief. The same poll also showed that white evangelicals were more likely than any other Christian group to believe that God would punish nations for the sins of some of its citizens and that natural disasters were a sign from God. What's more, other research from the Journal of Psychology and Theology has found that some evangelical Christians rationalize illnesses like cancer as God's will…


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