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Majority of republicans are religious idiots. If you believe in imaginary friends that give you sky cake, then you can believe literally anything.
Don't mistake bad faith arguments with beliefs.
They believe in acquiring power in any way necessary. For most, that means pandering to their constituents, which means saber rattling for MAGA.
Just like you can't take the religious right for their "beliefs" either. They are just exploiting a rabid easily rallied base.
Nothing tells me someone has a very specific bone to pick more than jumping to blaming the Republicans on Christianity. It's putting the cart before the horse, and taking too much of what they say at face value. Remembering, of course, they're all pathological liars.
It's kind of depressing to know even some people on the left haven't figured out yet who these fuckers actually are. Religion is not at their core, nor is conservativism, not even nationalism. Those are all just addons.
It's pure, uncut selfishness, greed, and hate. All other belief systems are erected on top of that as needed, and often interchangeably.
This is mostly true. What major bills did Republicans pass under Trump? Tax cuts for the rich. It's always tax cuts for the rich. That's their religion.
It is a core feature of most religions that
This belief is strikingly similar to conspiratorial worldviews, and the likelihood of subscribing to QAnon and other conspiracy theories rises substantially with increasing religiosity.
They're not the same thing, but they are definitely related