I’m watching Apocalypse in the Tropics documentary on Netflix about evangelicals and politics in Brazil and it’s mind boggling. Why do the religious people just blindly do whatever the pastors tell them?
I’m watching Apocalypse in the Tropics documentary on Netflix about evangelicals and politics in Brazil and it’s mind boggling. Why do the religious people just blindly do whatever the pastors tell them?
The bubble. I have a friend who ended up in a ‘bubble’ church. They get all their news from the church. TV channels: church. Cinema: church.
They have a STEM degree. They’re not stupid, and yet they are.
That sounds like the Bonhoeffer kind of stupid.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone call Bonhoeffer stupid before. Personally I wish more pastors got involved in plots to assassinate genocidal fascists.
I really wrote that poorly.
I was referring to his views on stupidity being a choice and a way of (not) thinking instead of an intrinsic attribute. That’s how someone intelligent can have stupid thoughts.
Bonhoeffer was anything but stupid and the opposite of the ‘blind faith’ kind of Christian.
Gotcha. I agree.
Was that plot even real or was it a kangaroo court sort of thing?
I think it was real. His level of involvement is debatable, but his writings seem to indicate he at least knew about it.
Kind of lazy of me not to look it up myself…
🤣 No such thing as lazy, that’s just a word we use to shame people into doing stuff they don’t feel like doing.