• 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎@h4x0r.host
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    Reads like a nothing burger. So confirms 20 people in a barn. Loosely tries to connect Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and Trump to this movement. This just sounds like fear porn for a fringe minority of radical evangelicals, no different from other radical sects in other religious groups.

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      At this point, tens of millions of believers—about 40 percent of American Christians, including Catholics, according to a recent Denison University survey—are embracing an alluring, charismatic movement that has little use for religious pluralism, individual rights, or constitutional democracy.

      Doesn’t sound very fringe to me.

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        A lot of “surveys” are hardly vetted and they are used in an attempt to extrapolate across a larger group, but are seldom right. Just look at all the early polling that showed Kamala would be leading the Presidency, but we got orange man instead. The article also doesn’t link to said survey, so we can’t even compare its sample size or any other statistical analysis. Maybe they only surveyed 30 people. We just have to use an incredibly large figure injected by the author that supports the article’s claims. For all we know, the results of the survey might even have not been interpreted the way the author has interpreted them. I tried searching for this survey, but came up short in Kagi. Would love to read the survey and find out how it was conducted and whether or not it really does represent the American Christian community at large.