A 'Scary' Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary

[UpInArms]

The AEI survey found that partisan divisions were also evident along religious lines. About three in five white evangelicals told the pollsters that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected, that it was not accurate to say Trump encouraged the attack on the Capitol, and that a Biden presidency now has them feeling disappointed, angry or frightened.

On all those questions, Cox says, white evangelicals are "politically quite distinct." Majorities of white mainline Protestants, Black Protestants, Catholics, followers of non-Christian religions and the religiously unaffiliated all viewed Biden's victory as legitimate.

The AEI survey found that white evangelicals were especially prone to subscribe to the Q Anon movement's conspiracy theories. Twenty seven percent said it was "mostly" or "completely" accurate to say Trump "has been secretly fighting a group of child sex traffickers that include prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites." That share was higher than for any other faith group and more than double the support for QAnon beliefs evident among Black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics and non-Christians.

"As with a lot of questions in the survey, white evangelicals stand out in terms of their belief in conspiracy theories and the idea that violence can be necessary," Cox says. "They're far more likely to embrace all these different conspiracies."

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/11/966498544/a-scary-survey-finding-4-in-10-republicans-say-political-violence-may-be-necessa

We need to stop the political proselytizing in churches ...

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1. A good first step would be for the IRS to start taxing all churches involved in political activity.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. The longer this festers the worse it is going to get.

The Impeachment of RUMP is a good first step to turn things around peacefully I think.

[Iliyah]

3. The . . .

acquittal crew is part of it.

[Harker]

4. They're just now feeling angry, disappointed, or frightened?

I'm having a hard time finding a damn after how I, and so many others, have been feeling for the past four years.

We're all victims of their mass hysteria.

[mopinko]

5. hell, if he'd actually been locking up pedos

i might have voted for him.
not rly, but i would have thought very differently about the last 4 yrs.

[rownesheck]

6. White evangelicals

also believe an old white man is floating around in the sky and will eventually destroy the earth, but will bring them up to live with him for all eternity. They actually want that to happen, and the sooner the better.

I just can't understand why they're susceptible to conspiracy theories spouted by death cults.