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Why Your Christian Friends... Are So Easily Fooled By Conspiracy Theories
Medium.com ^ | May 7, 2020 | Joe Forrest

Posted on 05/22/2020 8:34:00 AM PDT by Baldwin77

And, with COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 Presidential campaign in full swing, the amount of Christians posting and sharing conspiracy theory videos has attained critical mass. For many of us, it can be demoralizing to watch beloved friends, family members, and mentors fall deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of convoluted government plots and paranoid speculation.

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1 posted on 05/22/2020 8:34:00 AM PDT by Baldwin77
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To: Baldwin77

What rock has THIS clown been hiding under?

It’s patently obvious that Muslims are the #1 conspiracy theory followers on the planet. Jews using their childrens’ blood to make cookies for Purim and all that.


2 posted on 05/22/2020 8:36:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Baldwin77

Should I read the
Article Before
Commenting?


3 posted on 05/22/2020 8:36:37 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: Baldwin77

And lefties, who have been railing about Russia for 3 years, don’t fall for these?


4 posted on 05/22/2020 8:36:40 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Baldwin77

This article was posted to my spouse on FB in reply to a video that presented a non-panic point of view to the hyped Corona pandemic - by a physician.

I have never, ever read a more condescending, vile piece of trash presented under the cover of “Chrisitanity” in my life. Disgusting.

Your thoughts?


5 posted on 05/22/2020 8:36:49 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: Baldwin77

what is the conspiracy theory?

and what is Bill Gates actually up to? what is his motivation?
WHO?
flip flop media?

why single out “Christians” for ridicule?


6 posted on 05/22/2020 8:37:15 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: Baldwin77

I actually hope many of you read the article and post comments. I would like to link this thread to this person, so he can enjoy the comments. Thank you !


7 posted on 05/22/2020 8:39:10 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: Baldwin77

Oh, like:

“Trump is a Russian agent!”
“Trump and hookers peed on a Russian bed 0bama used!”
“Flynn is corrupt!”
“Trump illegally blocked Ukrainian aid!”
“0bama was the least corrupt president, ever!”

Yeah, I believe a lot more non-Christians believed these conspiracy theories than did Christians.


8 posted on 05/22/2020 8:40:40 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Baldwin77

It’s not my “Christian” friends that think we never landed on the moon or that it wasn’t commercial airliners that brought down the WTC.

I confess that some fringe young earth “professing” Christians are easy prey to the “flat earth” youtube videos, though.


9 posted on 05/22/2020 8:40:45 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Baldwin77
Oh,you mean convoluted government plots like “POTUS wants to know everything we're doing”?...or “What's our plan here? Do we want him to lie so he can be prosecuted?”,or "everything was done by the book"?

Or is it 33,000 emails to,and from,the United States Secretary of State that have mysteriously vanished?

10 posted on 05/22/2020 8:40:52 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: a fool in paradise

“During the 2016 Presidential Election, my blog’s inbox was flooded with emails from concerned Christians asking me to look into Hillary Clinton’s supposed ties to a pedophile sex ring.

“And after DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered, it was my Christian followers sharing links to conspiracy theories — even after Fox News retracted their original story.”


11 posted on 05/22/2020 8:42:06 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Baldwin77

I used to have an interesting book I bought about 25 years ago. SELLING FEAR which went into many of the conspiracy theories of the days back then.

It probably has been updated since then.


12 posted on 05/22/2020 8:42:13 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Baldwin77

Joe Forrest suffers from Christianityphobia.


13 posted on 05/22/2020 8:43:07 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Baldwin77

Excerpt is WAY too short


14 posted on 05/22/2020 8:43:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Baldwin77

Bkmk


15 posted on 05/22/2020 8:45:20 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer, who graduated from Air Force pilot training, on 1 May 2020)
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To: Baldwin77

don’t worry about those centurians... the romans are way too incompetent to keep us from practicing our Christianity.

or this one...

the nazi rhetoric blaming the jews is just that, their bark is worse than their bite.


16 posted on 05/22/2020 8:45:45 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: Big Red Badger
"Should I read the Article Before Commenting?"

What are you talking about? This is Freerepublic, we don't read articles here, we just comment....

17 posted on 05/22/2020 8:46:17 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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To: Baldwin77

conspiracy theory = any reason not to OBEY your liberal masters.


18 posted on 05/22/2020 8:46:46 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: Baldwin77

Look up “politics” and “conspiracy” in the dictionary. Tell me what is the functional difference in how they are accomplished? Both are about building coalitions to advance agendas. One is legal. The other is outside of the legal process. They occur the same way. When you read the “conspiracy” meaning below consider that a group of politicians may work together to change the laws of the nation to benefit themselves or constituencies...

Politics
• Activities within an organization that are aimed at improving someone’s status or position and are typically considered to be devious or divisive: yet another discussion of office politics and personalities.

Conspiracy
A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful: a conspiracy to destroy the government.

• The action of plotting or conspiring: they were cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.


19 posted on 05/22/2020 8:46:53 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Baldwin77

Wanna see some frothing at the mouth?

Tell an atheist that climate change is a story that atheists tell their kids to get them to behave.

I guarantee you this twit believes in the Russian bot conspiracy theory along with the right wing conspiracy that Hillary espoused.


20 posted on 05/22/2020 8:47:35 AM PDT by Skywise
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