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I'm not sure the bottom part of your argument makes sense. Religious people trust God, but I don't see a reason they would trust or distrust any specific govern
by Thorrez 5y ago
I'm not sure the bottom part of your argument makes sense. Religious people trust God, but I don't see a reason they would trust or distrust any specific government or news organization unless that government or news organization claimed to be divinely backed. I don't see why religion would cause someone to be more likely to blindly trust a news organization over the government. There's been a lot of US patriotism tied to religion ("In God we trust.", "God bless America.", "endowed by their Creator").
- slim 5y agoIt's the authority to interpret the word of god. The authority is delegated by people you already trust to people they are trust themselves. It creates a hierarchy of power. It's easy to manipulate millions of people if you are at the top of that hierarchy. Especially when the people we're talking about have their sense of truthfulness broken at a very young age by forcing them to believe in an entity they can't see
- Thorrez 5y agoIs Fox News part of a hierarchy of power interpreting the word of God? Is QAnon? I'm not really seeing how your comment supports cletus's comment about Fox News and wack job conspiracies. >forcing them to believe in an entity they can't see People can't see the big bang either, at least at a young age. In my mind there's a pretty clear argument for God's existence from the laws of thermodynamics. You can define God to be whatever caused mass and energy to exist, and more foundationally whatever caused the laws of the universe to exist.