(January 7, 2021 at 7:13 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(January 7, 2021 at 11:00 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: As you seem to recognize, the tendency of American Evangelicals to believe anything Trump says despite any factual evidence otherwise and to also be antivaxxers suggests to me that at least for that particular subgroup of Christians, their religion does not inoculate them at all from political cult-like behavior.
I'm curious as to why you included antivaxxer in your description. Insofar as any Christian is an antivaxxer, the reasons for it seem to align with my theory. It is an over-allocation of trust in Christianity, that leads to an exclusion of trust in other organizations such as science or governments. My guess is that any overlap that might exist between them and Trump supporters, is likely due to Trump championing a mistrust in science and government, dispite him being in government.
The only reason why trust in any one religion would lead to a distrust in science, is if adherence to the religion requires antipathy with science.
Mainstream Christianity has made its peace with science. Evangelical versions have not. To be a bible-believing Christian, you must believe a story that contradicts science. The more science can be marginalized, the less cognitive dissonance the believer will feel.
I know because I tried out the Evangelical thing as a teen for a few months. I consider that time to not have been a high point of sanity. I remember the impossible contradictions in both science and morality that I had to hold.
