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?

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I think maybe you have it backwards people who are easily swayed/trusting of authority/gullible are going to be naturally drawn toward religion. Skeptics/those who don’t take things at face value are going to be naturally skeptical of it.

    Religion doesn’t make you stupid but it’s very attractive to the sort

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      The flip side of that is manipulators are going to gravitate toward religion as a easy way to get what they want from the suckers.