The problem here is that you find everyday people who you think are normal that suddenly go into QAnon bullshit. This is why so many say you do not know what to believe. For the record, QAnon is not limited to religion. It distorts everything.

If they had focused their congregations on good works & true Xianity, instead of politicizing their preaching, this would not be happening......my heart bleeds for them....NOT.

They are all fuckin’ nuts.

1930s Germany all over again.

Sometimes I'm worried that the role of technology in the q-anon conspiracy amounts to the automated creation of a religion.

I think people really need to be a lot more worried about automated mass manipulation combined with the inherent dynamics of religious belief.

Imagine for a couple hundred thousand dollars you could manipulate a certain population into a quasi religious pattern of product consumption or political activism/violence.

That said... those who allowed their practice of religion to facilitate discriminatory norms are directly complicit in priming their population for this type of exploitation.

Q-anon is just offering them the more animalistic exercise of fear, power and exclusion our reptilian brains are biased towards.

These pastors were basically out competed by the for fears, hate and biases they sought to manipulate to maintain their religious industrial complex.

They deserve little empathy.