While the QAnon cult has found its way into evangelical churches across America, the ever-updating and goal post-moving conspiracy theory is now targeting some of the most prominent evangelicals in the country, Right Wing Watch reports. On July 12, RWW reported that MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer, who launched a primary challenge to Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Lankford […]
Some day I want to make an effort post about how there is a real divide in White American Evangelicalism. That's a group that makes up roughly 25% of the US population. I've been pretty deeply involved in that culture up until the last 6-7 years. I would say very roughly, of that 25%, maybe 20% are "true believers". Not to say they're not political, but I'd say they are people who are pretty sincere in their beliefs and would still probably put their religion ahead of their politics. But the other remaining 80%, I think they are folks who are in it for the social and political reasons and not so much the religion, even if they don't realize it themselves. They're happy being in Evangelicalism so long as it wraps around how they see the world. The QAnon stuff could easily supersede religion for this group of people.
And 80% of 25% is a pretty damn big number. That's the population that I think is susceptible to QAnon.
This was the natural trajectory of American Protestantism.
This topic is keenly fascinating and I want to learn all about the inversion of Christianity represented by American Protestantism
Some day I want to make an effort post about how there is a real divide in White American Evangelicalism. That's a group that makes up roughly 25% of the US population. I've been pretty deeply involved in that culture up until the last 6-7 years. I would say very roughly, of that 25%, maybe 20% are "true believers". Not to say they're not political, but I'd say they are people who are pretty sincere in their beliefs and would still probably put their religion ahead of their politics. But the other remaining 80%, I think they are folks who are in it for the social and political reasons and not so much the religion, even if they don't realize it themselves. They're happy being in Evangelicalism so long as it wraps around how they see the world. The QAnon stuff could easily supersede religion for this group of people.
And 80% of 25% is a pretty damn big number. That's the population that I think is susceptible to QAnon.