Nucking Futz

The Public Religion Research Institute is a non-profit organization that conducts research on religion in American life. They did a high quality poll based on a sample of households derived from post office addresses, in which they asked straight up whether people agreed with the statement that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.” Now I suppose a few people might have said " yes " just for yucks. On the other hand some people may have said " no " out of paranoia that the cabal was coming after believers. Whatever the fact of that may be, 15% of all respondents said yes, and 23% of Republicans did. No big surprise, white evangelical protestants were more likely to agree, but it might be a surprise that Hispanic protestants were as well. I have seen anecdotal reports that this is at least one reason why Joe Biden didn ' t do as well among Latino voters as Democrats have previously.  You can always find some people who believe really wacky stuff, to be sure. Extraterrestrial reptiloid shape-shifters actually run the world , or the international Jewish conspiracy; the Covid-19 vaccines contain microchips that track your movements. (I ' ve got news for you folks: you already have a device in your pocket that tracks your movements.) The reptiloid conspiracy theory is pretty harmless as far as I can tell. The international Jewish conspir...
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