Friday, April 15, 2022
‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists
…He also draws a tentative line between faith and conspiracy theory: "The Christian worldview is really just about how you're determining truth. Where are you getting truth from? What is your relationship with truth? For the Christian, your foundational relationship with the truth is determined by faith, its definition is that you can't argue with it or interrogate it."
That mindset, plus the religious yearning for one single theory that explains everything, really softens up the brain – these are my words, not his – for conspiracy theories, which meet the same need. I think there is an actual concrete example of this journey, from fundamentalist Christianity to QAnon (again, this is definitely me not him, he is much less strident than I am). The paedophile element of QAnon, where Hillary Clinton and a huge global web of powerful liberals, are abusing children and keeping them in tunnels, sounds completely unhinged. But if you've been vehemently anti-abortion on faith grounds for years, then to your mind, feminists and other liberals are already in favour of murdering children…
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