QAnon

[BedellBrave]

i'm sure little did you suspect this is where we would be three months later

I actually am not surprised. Sadly. I'm having to deal with a couple of folk on the verge of getting sucked in. Grateful that some Christian publications are beginning to ring the alarm bells.

Link

[BedellBrave]

The nice thing about a conspiracy theory is everything confirms it.

Bannon being arrested is more proof of Q being right.

Judge ruling on very poorly chosen one's taxes is another piece of proof.

Massive solar storm later this week. More proof.

Lion at the zoo farts. More proof.

Yep

[BedellBrave]

When a person believes in a magic man in the sky who says non believers are evil people who deserve eternal damnation it's pretty easy for them to believe anything.

Not to infuriate you but to let you know, I'm praying for you cajun. Honored to do so.

[BedellBrave]

He's not going to disavow what he in great part drives...

Pence has though...interestingly.

[nsacpi]

I actually am not surprised. Sadly. I'm having to deal with a couple of folk on the verge of getting sucked in. Grateful that some Christian publications are beginning to ring the alarm bells.

Link

Thanks for the link. That's a very good article.

[nsacpi]

He's not going to disavow what he in great part drives...

Pence has though...interestingly.

Good for Pence.

[nsacpi]

https://www.technologyreview.com/202...-evangelicals/

[nsacpi]

i'm gonna guess there are some Q believers who post here

[nsacpi]

[cajunrevenge]

Its quickly turning into a Religion. Its actually less absurd than most religions.

[goldfly]

[nsacpi]

credibly accused creepy joe is on to something...i don't think Q is a conspiracy or pseudo religion...it is a form of delusion and should best be regarded as a mental health issue

[cajunrevenge]

Uh, you dont understand religion if you think it is not a mental illness. It is a text book definition of mental illness.

[nsacpi]

Uh, you dont understand religion if you think it is not a mental illness. It is a text book definition of mental illness.

you paint with too broad and coarse a brush

for some more nuanced views (including by atheists) of religion, here is a review of some pretty good books

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/b...-religion.html

i might add that since religion has been ubiquitous over human history (except possibly in the very distant past and very recent past) that you consider whether this implies that to be human is to be mentally ill

[cajunrevenge]

The day will come when people who believe in a magic man in the sky are in insane asylums. Might not be for 200 years but it is irrational in every sense. I am always about treating people how they would treat me and there is a long history of religious people doing everything in their power to destroy atheists. It's a ****ing death penalty in some parts of the world. I am all about eye for an eye.



And just off the top of my head why arent crimes done for religious reasons given a sentencing enhancement like they do for hate crimes.

[nsacpi]

The day will come when people who believe in a magic man in the sky are in insane asylums. Might not be for 200 years but it is irrational in every sense. I am always about treating people how they would treat me and there is a long history of religious people doing everything in their power to destroy atheists. It's a ****ing death penalty in some parts of the world. I am all about eye for an eye.

To be sure awful things have been done in the name of religion.

But that is looking at just one side of the ledger. Among the small handful of Germans who held out against Hitler were groups of committed Christians who saw that what he was doing was completely antithetical to their religious beliefs. The great majority of German Christians though were willing to avert their gaze. Shades of America in 2020.

[cajunrevenge]

Good people exist regardless of religion. The ones I worry about are the ones who wonder what keeps us from raping and killing people without fear of God.

[nsacpi]

https://www.ajc.com/news/marjorie-ta...CD6ET3K5XZKPY/

[cajunrevenge]

QAnons top priority is replacing water with brawndo. It's got the electrolytes plants crave.

[nsacpi]

Daniel Walters was surprised to see an incoming call from Washington state Rep. Jenny Graham (R) on Aug. 27. The Spokane, Wash., journalist wrote a story that day about Graham sharing false articles on Facebook, including a story claiming that thousands of missing children are kept in dungeons and raped by demons.

But Walters was unable to pick up in time. When he called the state representative back, she unleashed a barrage of hateful insults.

“You c---------!” Graham said twice. “Don’t ever call me again.”

Before Walters could get some answers as to why Graham was upset, the line disconnected.

For days following the phone call, Graham took to Facebook, posting attacks against the reporter and calling his story false. On Monday, Walters wrote a follow-up piece in the Inlander, an alt-weekly newspaper in Spokane, fact-checking his earlier story and including the full recording of his interview with Graham, as well as the audio from a threatening voice mail she left him.

“What I was more concerned with was: Did we get anything wrong? Was there any sort of trust that we violated? Was there anything significantly unfair or inaccurate?” Walters said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Walters began reporting the story about Graham last month, when he noticed she had shared several articles from websites publishing false information and promoting theories also pushed by QAnon, a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory that Satan-worshiping pedophiles are plotting against President Trump and running a sex-trafficking ring.

Among the stories Graham shared were one falsely connecting vaccinations to autism on a website that promotes QAnon conspiracies, and another from a blog that includes a video claiming that Democrats are “possessed by demons” and “hate humanity,” Walters reported.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...en-journalist/