re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

QAnon is secular Fundamentalism.

Nope, it’s definitely Christian. Even Christians say so.

There aren’t 41MM atheists in the country.

(RNS) — A new study finds devotees of the conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon number in the tens of millions, a sizable coalition that claims a number of white evangelicals but draws from other religious groups as well.

And while QAnon believers are vastly outnumbered by those who reject or doubt their claims, researchers say they represent a politically motivated worldview that diverges sharply from the views of other Americans when assessing current events, such as the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol last year.

The study, compiled from a series of surveys conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute in 2021, gauged Americans’ attachment to QAnon, whose followers are often loyal to former President Donald Trump, by asking whether respondents agreed with three statements associated with the movement:

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.
There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.
Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save the country.

Those who completely or mostly agreed with these statements were dubbed QAnon believers, those who mostly disagreed were described as doubters and those who completely disagreed as rejecters. Researchers discovered 16% of American adults — roughly 41 million people — were QAnon believers, while 48% were QAnon doubters and 34% rejecters.

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Study: QAnon draws from several faith groups, numbers more than 40 million (Religion News Service, February 24, 2022)