Yes, people really believe this

Tom Sullivan at Digby ' s blog excerpts and discusses an interview by Chauncy DeVegawith Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute. If you want to read the entire interview, Sullivan gives a link, or you may be satisfied just with his discussion.What you don ' t get a strong sense of from the post, however, is some of the specific content of white Christian nationalism. As we ' ve been reading the Bible, we know that it ' s riddled with contradictions, manifest nonsense, and theology that is inconsistent with what fundamentalist Christians claim to believe. You may have heard that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claims that the Bible is his sole guide to policy and morality, but obviously if you want to use the Bible as a guide to anything you have to pick and chose the parts you want to pay attention to. One simple example is that the Bible says you aren ' t supposed to lie, but it ' s a lie to say that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. But I digress.The part I want to focus on here, however, is the Revelation of John. This is the last book of the New Testament, and it is most unfortunate that it made it into the canon. If you aren ' t familiar with it, the Revelation records an extensive hallucinatory vision. Many people believe that the author (not John the purported author of the Gospel, but a person about whom we otherwise know nothing) did in fact consume a psychedelic mushroom or was otherwise intoxicated. It ' s a series of bizarre images, such as fan...
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