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Atheists & Agnostics

muriel_volestrangler

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6. The strange thing is that QAnon started on 4chan, who are a bunch of cynical bastards

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Sun Aug 23, 2020, 11:39 AM

Aug 2020

The early adherents are not the "I want to believe" type, more the "I want to say anything to harm the people I hate" type. But that seems to have had enough overlap with the Trump-supporting, anything-believing crowd (who would not, on the whole, hang out at 4chan) that it took hold and got a life outside the internet sludge pits.

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Rise of QAnon provides an insight into how religions get started and grow [View all] stopbush Aug 2020 OP

I've read that a high proportion of Qanoners are also fundamentalist Xtians. hedda_foil Aug 2020 #1

That would make sense. It's not a giant leap to jump from Xian dogma stopbush Aug 2020 #2

an extra twist RussBLib Aug 2020 #3

Yeah JustGene Aug 2020 #4

Someone could spoof one of their websites and rickford66 Aug 2020 #5

The strange thing is that QAnon started on 4chan, who are a bunch of cynical bastards muriel_volestrangler Aug 2020 #6