white evangelicals
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white evangelicals is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 18, 2021 and August 11, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “white evangelicals are more likely to believe in vaccine-autism connections”; ““White evangelicals” are more likely to believe most measured conspiracy theories”. It most often appears alongside GK Chesterton, QAnon, Aalto.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 18, 2021
- Last seen: August 11, 2022
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- GK Chesterton (2 shared issues)
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- QAnon (2 shared issues)
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- Aalto (1 shared issues)
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- AI risk (1 shared issues)
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- Baptists (1 shared issues)
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- Bigfoot (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
17: Is it true that, as GK Chesterton claimed, people who don’t believe in God will believe in anything? IE that Christianity fills a useful religion-shaped-hole in people’s heads, and so non-religious people are easy prey for cults, conspiracy theories, etc? I hear this a lot, but here’s a study finding that church-goers were more likely to believe in QAnon, even after “adjusting for confounders” (remember, this is hard and doesn’t always work). The same article notes that “white evangelicals” are more likely to believe in vaccine-autism connections, moon landing fraud, etc - although I find this less convincing than I would if they just gave me the church attendance statistics without bringing race and denomination into it.
Inline links: here’s a study finding that
“White evangelicals” are more likely to believe most measured conspiracy theories, and churchgoers were more likely to believe in QAnon in particular.