I’m watching Apocalypse in the Tropics documentary on Netflix about evangelicals and politics in Brazil and it’s mind boggling. Why do the religious people just blindly do whatever the pastors tell them?

  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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    20 hours ago

    If you believe in a magic man in the sky and a talking snake, it’s probably pretty easy to convince them of other things too.

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      19 hours ago

      Religion has already filtered out a population segment more likely to defer to authority figures when faced with facts that contradict reality.