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In reply to the discussion: I'm truly shocked. Some Republicans literally believe Obama is a Muslim [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)are among the most insular little worlds one will ever find. Of course, in such a group you might have doctors, lawyers, accountants and lots of otherwise educated people. But one of the social dynamics of fundamentalist church groups is that fellow believers are really the only people who hold opinions that count. There is a suspicion borderlining on paranoia about the world of non-believers. Thus there is a strong tendency to discount any information that does not come from believer sources. If you accept that your band of believers holds a special truth about the nature of the universe that the world cannot comprehend and only the true fellow believers can comprehend - one is going to end up knowing all kinds of things for certain that simply are not true.