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?

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s the modern Scheister equivalent of “Trust me bro!”

    Religion has a build in self defense mechanism as that it will prime people to expect people to call them fools for believing foolish things, so it actually serves to strengthen their faith. “See, pastor told me they’d come for my relationship with God!”

    All of this relies heavily on getting into people when they are young and their brains are still developing.

    People do not understand how deeply religion gets ingrained and how damaging it is.

    You’ll have adults that have left the faith, because they’ve seen the bullshit that it is that are still afraid of hell because they’ve been bombarded with this shit since they could talk.