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9. That is very interesting.

Reply to PurgedVoter (Reply #7)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 08:56 AM

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If I understand you correctly, you're saying that many right wing evangelical churches exert a kind of mind control on their members that gets them used to "truth" changing. So what I observe as an infuriating moving of goalposts is actually something they were raised to accept?

And yes, the person I interacted with was raised in a deep red Christian evangelical community, greatly influenced by both the military and Republican belonging and community. So going against their community's thinking means losing everything.

When spiritual faith is entwined with a political belief that is built on lies (MAGA), people are truly trapped.

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