Jesus Wept

[Dill]

(08-29-2018, 07:36 PM)hollodero Wrote: Now I don't know about "religious leaders" and who they lead, but I believe there are networks and contacts to preachers with an actual following of people in place. In said sense, I feel a propaganda campaign is going on, one that holds no valid points and takes advantage of a certain position of trust. (Like "God put me here to tell you saying "merry Christmas" will be frowned upon, yeah maybe forbidden soon if Trump's party loses an election" or things like that.)

And yeah, I also dislike propaganda campaigns that rally up people with BS points.

No need to "feel" that. It is a fact. There is a network of evangelical/fundamentalist churches who are plugged into PACs and get regular talking points.
Most political organizations are set up like that, but you hit on the distinguishing factor in this case--a position of trust in authority, cultivated since childhood, is used to manipulate uninformed people, get them to police their own sources of information, trust in a larger cosmic "plan" which their leaders grasp.

But you are talking about roughly 30% of the total Christians in the U.S., if that.