A new study has found that both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism are independently associated with a greater tendency to believe in conspiracy theories. When people believed in both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism, their distrust of government officials increased significantly. The findings, published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, provide insight into the sociocultural factors that contribute to the spread and persistence of conspiracy beliefs in certain populations. ...
  • pushka
    2•2 years ago

    I grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist church (similar vibe to Mormon and Jehovah’s Witnesses) and they are big on Bible is literally all true, they’re usually pacifist , but even their founding fathers had some Catholic church will kill us all they’re the Antichrist conspiracy theories and it’s definitely big in the church - being a small closed community, it’s automatically a - we are a small group with the truth and everyone else are sheep