Some people WANT to believe there's all sorts of evil conspiracies. Breaks from their drab wretched lives. They get to feel better than those SATANIC BABY KILLERS, and feel like they're part of something (besides the pampered supermajority religion). No wonder they hated Dungeons and Dragons; it was a much more balanced RPG (and didn't destroy anyone's life).
Thank you Diana. I hadn't heard of the books you mentioned and didn't know much about Qanon. Yes, we have to believe that the truth will set us free. You reminded me og God's great love for all.
The "5G spreads Covid" conspiracy (which is closely tied to Q-Anon) is not original either. The same idea can be found in Robert Heinlein's short story "Waldo" of 1942
Diana, Thank you for doing this research for us. Referring to similar conspiracy theories in the past may take some of the steam out of Qanon. The theory they promote seems almost an addiction to a few people I know. - Doug Carpenter
Awful. The recent revelations (White Too Long; Robert Jones) of the complicity of mainstream white Chrisian churches in racism and White Supremacy: awful. The strong support of Trump by white Evangelicals despite their flagship magazine Chritianity Today calling him unfit for office and grossly immoral: awful. All these point to the grotesque failure of Christian churches to faithfully proclaim and worship the God that Jesus revealed. It is hard to see how Christianity can survive, or why it deserves to. I write as an active member of a Prebyterian church for more than 50 years.
I remember hearing lurid tales of satanic cults when I was young. according to my friend (and not a dumb person at all) they were everywhere. They did terrible things to babies. I would go home from visiting her feeling unsettled but a little bit stimulated -- can that really all be happening all around me? I got older and realized that it wasn't. When Quanon came along along I thought, why does this sound so familiar?
There is just something in us that loves a satanic cult.
I liked the Mark Twain quote at the end: “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
It’s helpful to recognize the fearsome loud rhyming of today’s history making both for what it is and what it isn’t: a rhyme of faded history rather than a narrative of current reality.
A review of Joseph Goebels' "Principles of Propaganda" can be read at http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html. Much of what Qanon and others are currently spouting is well covered within that philosophy.
The word “dispossessed” is is very interesting. I wonder if not having possession of the authority of love as the source and sustainer of all that is quite simply leaves room for human imagination to run wild, adopting fantasies that fill the space in bizarre ways. The beauty of the Divine system is that the consequences of such wanderings are inevitable, consistently pointing to the authority of love as the source and sustainer of all that is. The avenue of grace that is filled with compassion and mercy can never be destroyed, only obscured.
David Goldfield begins his book America Aflame with the story of the anti-Catholic violence in Boston in 1835, setting it as the beginning of events leading to the Civil War. He points out that many in the anti-Catholic movement were also in the abolition movement. “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes,” said Mark Twain, who avoided the Civil War by lighting out for the Territories.
And then, there are The Tuam Babies, and The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland that are well documented, which for years were known about but dismissed as conspiracy theories. The worst part is that the Irish Government and the RC Church were complicit in these horrific practices, and tried to cover it all up.
Some people WANT to believe there's all sorts of evil conspiracies. Breaks from their drab wretched lives. They get to feel better than those SATANIC BABY KILLERS, and feel like they're part of something (besides the pampered supermajority religion). No wonder they hated Dungeons and Dragons; it was a much more balanced RPG (and didn't destroy anyone's life).
Thank you Diana. I hadn't heard of the books you mentioned and didn't know much about Qanon. Yes, we have to believe that the truth will set us free. You reminded me og God's great love for all.
The "5G spreads Covid" conspiracy (which is closely tied to Q-Anon) is not original either. The same idea can be found in Robert Heinlein's short story "Waldo" of 1942
Diana, Thank you for doing this research for us. Referring to similar conspiracy theories in the past may take some of the steam out of Qanon. The theory they promote seems almost an addiction to a few people I know. - Doug Carpenter
Awful. The recent revelations (White Too Long; Robert Jones) of the complicity of mainstream white Chrisian churches in racism and White Supremacy: awful. The strong support of Trump by white Evangelicals despite their flagship magazine Chritianity Today calling him unfit for office and grossly immoral: awful. All these point to the grotesque failure of Christian churches to faithfully proclaim and worship the God that Jesus revealed. It is hard to see how Christianity can survive, or why it deserves to. I write as an active member of a Prebyterian church for more than 50 years.
I remember hearing lurid tales of satanic cults when I was young. according to my friend (and not a dumb person at all) they were everywhere. They did terrible things to babies. I would go home from visiting her feeling unsettled but a little bit stimulated -- can that really all be happening all around me? I got older and realized that it wasn't. When Quanon came along along I thought, why does this sound so familiar?
There is just something in us that loves a satanic cult.
I liked the Mark Twain quote at the end: “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
It’s helpful to recognize the fearsome loud rhyming of today’s history making both for what it is and what it isn’t: a rhyme of faded history rather than a narrative of current reality.
A review of Joseph Goebels' "Principles of Propaganda" can be read at http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html. Much of what Qanon and others are currently spouting is well covered within that philosophy.
I’ve often used that quote from Willa Cather in my preaching. It is so true!
The word “dispossessed” is is very interesting. I wonder if not having possession of the authority of love as the source and sustainer of all that is quite simply leaves room for human imagination to run wild, adopting fantasies that fill the space in bizarre ways. The beauty of the Divine system is that the consequences of such wanderings are inevitable, consistently pointing to the authority of love as the source and sustainer of all that is. The avenue of grace that is filled with compassion and mercy can never be destroyed, only obscured.
Great quotations at the end!
David Goldfield begins his book America Aflame with the story of the anti-Catholic violence in Boston in 1835, setting it as the beginning of events leading to the Civil War. He points out that many in the anti-Catholic movement were also in the abolition movement. “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes,” said Mark Twain, who avoided the Civil War by lighting out for the Territories.
And then, there are The Tuam Babies, and The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland that are well documented, which for years were known about but dismissed as conspiracy theories. The worst part is that the Irish Government and the RC Church were complicit in these horrific practices, and tried to cover it all up.
Your history lesson gives me hope. There's a pony here in all this manure.