Santa and Jesus

[Major Nikon]

38. Oh I agree completely

In terms of damage to society, the privileged religion is certainly more deserving of ridicule. I'm just saying that in terms of the looniest of tunes of religions, you have to look pretty hard to beat Christianity. The examples are all over the place. You have nutty shit like exorcism, faith healing, snake handling, doomsday predictions, demonizing fictional characters, blaming natural disasters on gay people, historical revisionism, creationism, rejection of science, demonic influences, on and on it goes. You also have those influenced by Christianity who exhibit behavior commonly associated with pathological mental illness like hearing voices, hallucinations, and strong delusions.

In terms of pervasiveness it's easy enough to dismiss some of it as very few Christians are snake handlers, but then you have reliable polls that show about 1/3rd of the US population subscribes to young earth creationism. You also have nutbags that most certainly do subscribe to the nuttiest of these themes that rise to high levels in the government, and you have a presidunce who can very easily tap into the very large nutbag wing of Christianity and expect extremely high levels of support.