I think "many" might be overselling it a bit relative to a population of ~330M.

minikites · on April 8, 2020

People who believe that have incredible influence in our flawed political structure.

CamperBob2 · on April 8, 2020

Translation: Hi, I'm from New York or California, or maybe Seattle.

fastball · on April 8, 2020

Huh? There are a lot of devout Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are not "end-times" truthers.

CamperBob2 · on April 8, 2020

The ones with political power are. It is exceedingly naive to claim otherwise.

Google the term "Dominionism."

fastball · on April 8, 2020

Dominionism is not a clearly defined practice/group/sect/etc. The most inclusive definition is basically just "people with strong beliefs want to run the democracy they live in according to those beliefs", which doesn't seem like a surprising way for anyone to behave.

Yet, take even the most expansive and uncharitable definition, and still "dominionism" =/= "the end times are at hand and there are signs everywhere of the coming anti-christ, such as national ID cards".

CamperBob2 · on April 8, 2020

You're lecturing to someone who grew up around these people, and who, paradoxically, has only watched their influence grow over the last thirty years.

So, yeah, thanks for that.