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A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Daily reminfer that 33% of the US is crazy, and the majority hate Trump.
Aparently they didnt hate him enough to vote against him.
They did.
The US is not a democracy
The winning candidate in the 2024 election was "none"
"Didn't Vote" could as easily be "Any/All" as "None". Also discounts the voters who were legally disenfranchised or otherwise discouraged from participating.
Hence "not a democracy". Voters don't pick their politicians. Politicians pick their voters.
No it was "I don't care, just take whoever the others want".
27%
A Christian (or, really, anyone who believes in predestination) thinking "X is Part of God's Plan" is perfectly consistent with their understanding of the world.
It's the Christians who don't believe this who are being irrational
Those Christians would be inconsistent, but all Christians are irrational by definition.
Rationality is predicated on inputs and outputs. If you're surrounded by second and third hand accounts of divine mysteries, it isn't irrational to accept them as true absent some more compelling data. At least, no more irrational than believing in dinosaurs or the Big Bang Theory, without ever actually having seen a fossil or learned about the significance of background radiation.