I started out doing “Top 3 Religious News Items” and that then evolved into “Weird Religious News”. What does become clear over time is that this is not just about belief. The majority of humans inherit a cultural tradition, and most will generally participate and adhere to the bits they enjoy with varying degrees of confidence, perhaps treating it as something more akin to a social club, or a way to hook up with others within their tribe.
There are clearly however some who not only take it all to an extreme, but also blend in right-wing political authoritarian fundamentalism and so they end up with a set of extreme beliefs that they are inspired to try and thrust upon all those around them by force.
Much, perhaps most, of the rhetoric that they babble on a regular basis consists of bizarre absurdities. To them, it is stuff that is vitally important “truth”, but for the rest of us it is something to laugh at and mock.
In normal circumstances it would all be relegated to the fringe, but we live in the age of Trumpsters and Brexiteers; a time when the promotion of authoritarian delusional nonsense by spivs, liars, and grifters, has gone mainstream and conned rather a lot people into becoming cult devotees.
What happened during the last 7 days?
The Cult of Trump is thriving
- Bill Mitchell: Trump Is Being Guided by God to Unleash ‘One of the Greatest Take Downs in Political History of the Deep State’…(Progress so far – 0%)
- Josh Bernstein continues to insist that President Trump won the popular vote in the 2016 election. (Hint: He didn’t.)
- Churchgoing White Evangelicals Support Donald Trump More Than Any Other Group
- Donald Trump is ‘The Perfect Shepherd’ for Scared Sheep, Says ‘Seven Mountains’ Advocate Lance Wallnau
Bolsonaro is giving the US Religious Right an Orgasm
- Trump-boosting “prophet” Cindy Jacobs has portrayed Bolsonaro’s election as another sign that “God is releasing the game-changers to shift governments.”
- Anti-LGBTQ activist Brian Brown celebrated Bolsonaro’s “stripping the nation’s human rights ministry of authority to consider LGBT-specific issues as ‘human rights.’”
- U.S. Religious Right leaders were praying for Bolsonaro—and not just praying. Former U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann recorded a video message to Brazilian Christians urging them to vote “only for a candidate for the president of Brazil who will support moving the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem.”
- Televangelist Pat Robertson announced on Tuesday that he and other Religious Right leaders are heading to DC to meet with and pray for Bolsonaro.
Its all understandable in many respects. He is singing from Trump’s Hymn sheet …
(I have visions of them all queueing up when he arrives to let Bolsonaro give them a blow job)
Disconnected from Reality …
Liz Crokin: College Admissions Scandal Proves QAnon’s ‘Mass Arrests Are Happening’…”I believe the white hats are trying to slowly prepare the public for what is about to come, so they are starting off small with white collar crimes and we’re slowly going to get up to the bigger crimes, which involve treason, trafficking kids, ritualistic satanic abuse”
Just how disconnected from reality is she?
Basically this disconnected …
- Liz Crokin explains how God sent millions of butterflies to California to send her a sign “that President Trump is taking on the pedophiles.”
The Resurrection of very old conspiracies
Rick Wiles says that while the legitimacy of the notoriously anti-Semitic “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is “disputed,” the claims found in the book are “eerily correct.”…
Musical Guidance
Mark Taylor is urging church worship bands to change the way they tune their instruments so that they are not operating on “Satan’s frequency.”…
Weather Control
‘Seasoned Prophet of God’ Bobby Conner Recounts the Time He Stopped a Tornado…
(You believe a guy who appears on a TV show run by a guy who went to jail for religious fraud … right?)
There is a new “Theory” regarding the reason for their prayers to not work
Aborted Cells in Vaccines May Have Blocked Anti-Choice Prayers, Says IFA…
(Beyond the rather obvious observation that this is not how vaccines or even reality works, this boosts superstitious thinking to an entirely new level of fantasy)
Highlight Of The week – The rapid rise of non-belief
Has the constant stream of complete and utter religious lunacy had an impact?
Yes it has.
The largest “religious” group in the US is now …
- Nones – No religion at 23.1%
Bigger than “Evangelicals”? – Yes, they are now only 22.5% and shrinking
Bigger than “Catholic”? – Yes, they are down to 23%
Source is newly released General Social Survey data analyzed by Ryan P. Burge of Eastern Illinois University