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Author: ges ✧🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Religion: democracy poison
Date: 09/14/2024 10:31 AM
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The last survey from the Public Religion Research Institute tells us there is a large group of authoritarian-inclined Americans who are overrepresented among Republicans and White evangelical Christians. Republicans are about 2½ times more likely than Democrats to agree with measures of political violence: that “patriots may have to resort to violence to save our country” (27 percent vs. 8 percent); that “everyday Americans will need to ensure the rightful leader takes office, even if it requires taking violent actions” (24 percent vs. 10 percent); and that “armed citizens are needed as poll watchers” (24 percent vs. 10 percent),” the pollsters found in a survey of 5,000 Americans.

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Author: ges ✧🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Religion: democracy poison
Date: 09/14/2024 10:36 AM
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Whether authoritarian personalities are inclined to certain religious sects or those sects already foster this disposition is unknown. What we do know is that a high percentage of Americans who favor Christian nationalism are authoritarians. (Christians who believe “the final battle between good and evil is upon us” are strongly linked to support for authoritarianism and Christian nationalism.) That makes their attachment to authoritarianism essentially an article of faith, not something they are willing to rationally reconsider. And that, in turn, poses a threat to our pluralistic democracy in which religious and racial supremacy are unacceptable.
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Author: onepoorguy 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Religion: democracy poison
Date: 09/14/2024 1:30 PM
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Of course they're authoritarians. The believe a deity handed them a guidebook for living, and that they are supposed to force it on everyone else. Perhaps that's a bit of an overgeneralization, but it's largely true. They then transfer that "moral authority" to whomever they think speaks for their deity, and follow what that person says.

That's the basis of an authoritarian system: one guy sets the rules, often citing divine authority. Doesn't matter if it's someone like Huckabee or Johnson, or an ayatollah. Different flavors of the same thing.
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