False Idol -- Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump

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1. It's real simple:

1. Religion is based on total fiction

2. Christians treat the fictions of their religion as if it is truth

3. Their treating religious fictions as fact predispose them to treat other fictions as fact

4. The are open to following people whose claim that fiction is fact because such claims mirror the pretzel they contort themselves into in believing their religious fictions are fact

5. They are equally open to believing fact is fiction (fake news) - the flip side of the belief-in-fiction coin

6. This all leads to the conceit that they are privy to a “secret truth” that god allows only the true believers to know. Science and other facts are easy to reject when they lie outside the secret truth that is shared only with the true believers.