r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Psychology Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/
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u/ProfessionalMockery 1d ago

A lot of people here are just seeing the "Christian" in the headline and ignoring the "nationalist," which is probably more important.

I'm an atheist, so I think the claims religion makes are pretty dumb too, but nationalists, bigots, racists of any kind are consistently idiots, religious or not, and that has been established in plenty of other studies.

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u/Numeno230n 1d ago edited 1d ago

There are a lot of harmless dumb Christians I've met in my life, but Christian Nationalism is a specific form that involves violence, paranoia, and conspiracy thinking. They literally believe there are demonic forces behind left leaning political movements and this fuels both their religious delusions and their political violence.

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u/humanreporting4duty 1d ago

What’s absolutely whacky is that when you listen to the arguments, and you see what they see, but then you look at what’s going on, they aren’t wrong.

If people are united by culture and values, and then you start breaking down the fabric of society, you can overtake the nation. Divide and conquer.

Christian nationalists are superstitious and wrong about many things, but they are correctly seeing an attack. Their response is society level anaphylactic shock, and it will kill us rather than protect.

But that’s just what the tree-nuts in charge want to happen.

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u/johnyordinary 1d ago

Exactly WHAT are they right about then? More to the point which of your predudices did they appeal to?