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?

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
    62·
    3 days ago

    Literally, because they’re trained, usually from the age of children, to believe things without evidence. Their beliefs are based ENTIRELY on the conviction of other brainwashed idiots religious people, which can be very convincing as a small child who’s otherwise completely and utterly dependant on the understanding of the adults around them.

    This is from someone who grew up in a religion and thankfully realized other peoples’ conviction is absolutely NOT a valid basis for understanding truth.

    • nomad@infosec.pub
      16·
      3 days ago

      Organized religion is a means to control people. Always has been. How can anybody be surprised to learn after thousands of years they have actually perfected the craft of controlling people?

      • Maiq@lemy.lol
        6·
        2 days ago

        Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire