Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run by Foreign Troll Farms

Re:Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run ... by pjc50 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:53AM (#28692146)

Odd choice of counterpoint, because people are merely fans of the Kardashians; they don't demand any particular doctrine or mindset.

I would say it's better for people to believe in Jesus than the flat earth or that vaccines don't work or that the election was stolen from Trump. But these seem to be oddly linked; being an evangelical christian in the white American tradition seems to make people more susceptible to dangerous nonsense that has nothing to do with Christian doctrine.

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Re:Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run ... by vintermann on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:09AM (#28692240)

> they don't demand any particular doctrine or mindset

But they attract one, don't they? And that's how MOST religions work.

The big Abrahamic religions are rare as religions go, because they insist that what you do should follow from what you believe.

Most religions are perfectly fine with it being the other way around. As long as you follow the customs that give a sense of community and meaning, you're given a lot of leeway in how you justify them - and that's how fandoms work too, including presumably the Kardashians fandom (which I'm happy to not be very familiar with).

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