Are the Qanon beliefs compatible with Christianity? Does Qanon Lie? Does Qanon slander? What is QAnon? Wikipedia explains it best: “QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that alleges that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against President Donald Trump, who is battling against the cabal. Q of QAnon has accused many liberal Hollywood actors, Democratic politicians, and high-ranking officials of being members of the cabal. Q also claimed that Trump feigned conspiracy with Russians to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the sex-trafficking ring and preventing a coup d’état by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros.” We discuss QAnon, conspiracy theories, secret societies, and internet slanders, and how they relate to: • Fox News and right-wing media. • Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse case. • Invasion of the Body Snatchers. • The Big Lie and the Capitol Riots. • The Lost Cause, miseducating our children about slavery and Jim Crow discrimination. • Black lives matter, and how blacks fear rogue white policemen. • George Soros and anti-Semitic tropes. We review what these sources say about QAnon: • Pope Francis in his declaration, Gaudete et Exsultate. • Christianity Today magazine. • America magazine, published by the Jesuits. • US News and World Report. • Atlantic Magazine. • Secret Society history lectures, Wondrium, or Great Courses Plus.

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3. Are the Qanon beliefs compatible with Christianity?
Does Qanon Lie? Does Qanon slander?
We first need to define what Qanon is.

4. Wikipedia explains it best: “QAnon is a far-right
conspiracy theory that alleges that a cabal of
Satan-worshiping pedophiles is running a global
child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against
President Donald Trump, who is battling against
the cabal. Q of QAnon has accused many liberal
Hollywood actors, Democratic politicians, and
high-ranking officials of being members of the
cabal. Q also claimed that Trump feigned
conspiracy with Russians to enlist Robert
Mueller to join him in exposing the sex-
trafficking ring and preventing a coup d’état by
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George
Soros.”
The fact that George Soros is involved proves
that the QAnon conspiracy is true, after all, don’t
wealthy Jews control everything in the world?

5. I once had a well-educated Christian friend ask me, Why don’t Democrats want to
combat child abuse and pedophiles?
My response was, Come again? How absurd! Where did you get these absurd ideas?
Qanon is starting to feed into the internet chatter and Fox News and the more far-
right fringe TV and Internet shows. The accusation that Democratic or Republican
leaders and Hollywood stars have this secret cabal trafficking young children makes
no sense, and is explained only by the possibility that Qanon thinking is infiltrating
the Christian world and FoxNews and the rest of the right-wingnut media outlets.
Granted, the Jeffrey Epstein case is disturbing, and it is astounding how many of the
rich and powerful he roped into his orbit, like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince
Andrew, and even Bill Gates. And I might add that it makes sense that Trump broke
with Epstein after many members of his country club complained about Epstein
prowling after their teenage daughters.

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9. Some people may say, Qanon is gone, Q has not posted in
months, and anyway, Qanon is not that bad.
The moral issue is not so much Qanon, but how conspiracy
theories like Qanon can be very harmful.
The real question is why Qanon has taken hold. I am not going to
answer that question directly, it is answered in many resources
that I have referenced, and that will be posted in the months and
years to come.

10. During the past five years we have been living in a dystopian
world that is oddly like that described in the science fiction horror
movie, the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In this movie, planet
Earth is invaded by aliens that are a race of gelatinous creatures
that first invade the plant life in the cities. These plants run
filaments to humans at night through which they spawn a rapidly
growing clone identical in appearance and gait to their human
host, killing and disintegrating their human host before they
awake and when they are done. Very few humans notice this
body snatching that expands exponentially. The body-snatched
clones march in the same direction in total conformity, but when
they detect a true human walking down the street among them
they bulge their eyes, point their fingers, and let out a high pitch
screech, like this picture of Donald Sutherland shows us.

11. MOVIE DIALOGUE:
Elizabeth: I hate you.
Dr. Kibner: We don't hate you - there's no need for hate now. Or love.
Elizabeth: There are people who will fight you. Stop you.
Dr. Kibner: In an hour you won't want them to. Don't be trapped by old
concepts, Matthew, you're evolving into a new lifeform.
MOVIE DIALOGUE:
Elizabeth: I have seen these flowers all
over. They are growing like parasites
on other plants. All of a sudden. Where
are they coming from?
Nancy: Outer space?
Jack: What are you talking about? A
space flower?
Nancy: Well why not a space flower?
Why do we always expect metal ships?
Jack: I've NEVER expected metal ships.

12. In this poll, when Trump
supporters are asked whether
Democrat leaders are involved in
elite child sex-trafficking rings,
50% say YES, 33% say they are
not sure, and only 17% affirm
that this charge is NOT TRUE.

13. The leading conspiracy theory is that Trump won the election, leading to
the Capitol riots.
Now, I am not fond of issuing many purely political videos, there are
many fine channels that offer valuable political commentary, but I just
felt that I had to do a video condemning Qanon. Because Qanon is so
harmful to the Christian faith, I just wanted to raise my hand and push
back and say, Qanon is just plain wrong! Qanon lies! Qanon slanders!
I did cut two videos comparing the Capital riots to aspects of Socrates’
trial and unjust execution, a big lie led to his execution.
In this ancient event and in our modern insurrection, people died, police
were seriously injured, because of the Big Lie, and families were split
apart.

16. Ignorance enables demented conspiracy theories like Qanon. The
civics education we receive in this country is wanting. Historically,
the Daughters of the Confederacy, in addition to erecting
Confederate statues all over the Deep South and Midwest, have
promoted the myth of the Lost Cause in the American History
textbooks that downplay the terrorism of the KKK night riders,
deny the fact that the Civil War was fought over the institution of
slavery, and denying the brutality of both slavery and the violence
of the Jim Crow system of discrimination and segregation, and
total denial of due process of law to negroes. One of the projects
of this channel is to include videos on civil rights history that can
be shared with your white Christian friends.

18. Many blacks justly fear that every time they are pulled over by a white policeman
that they really need to mind their P’s and Q’s, lest they get shot. Many whites,
myself included, have been surprised during the public debate on Black Lives Matter
this past year how our black brothers live their lives in quiet fear of rogue white
policemen. Prosperous black can now move into prosperous neighborhoods, but
we keep hearing of the unlucky few prosperous blacks who are arrested on
suspicion of breaking into their own homes, the prosperous black jogger who was
murdered jogging in his own neighborhood by a white man who suspected he might
be running away from a crime somewhere.
What is not justified is allowing these deep-seated fears to fester into hatred.
Instead, this dysfunctional cycle must be broken by everyone consciously striving to
become better people, trying to make our society a better society. We must love
our neighbor. If we do not love our neighbor, we do not Love God.

20. Black lives do matter. Police brutality is
real. Too many black people are shot in
the back by policemen. Regardless, we
must remember that a primary cause
of police brutality is criminal brutality.
Police risk their lives literally every time
they answer calls on domestic violence
and traffic accidents. There is very
little discussion of this dilemma, this is
the only intelligent discussion of this
topic I have heard so far. Halfway
through this podcast Maya Wiley tells
of her experiences as a citizen member
of a New York City internal police
board.

21. Indeed, QAnon is snatching the souls of many
Christians, warns Ed Stetzer, a leading evangelical
leader affiliated with Wheaton College, as
expressed in this USA Today article, and a follow-
up article in Christianity Today, the leading
magazine for evangelical pastors and informed
laymen, that warns us all: “The challenge for
pastors is when will we begin to speak up.”

22. QAnon is slander, QAnon is hateful, QAnon is all about
conspiracies, and conspiracy theories are slanderous, QAnon is
not Christian, regardless of how often they misquote Scripture to
try to justify their crazy conspiracy theories.

23. QAnon is turning into a virtual cult. QAnon
may even be turning into a weird religion
similar to Scientology. Stetzer says that
“some talk about QAnon as if some messianic
figure is at work. Similar to the ancient
heresy of Gnosticism in the early church, it
lures people with promises of secret
knowledge. It provides a sense of identity
and belonging with code phrases like: ‘Where
we go one, we go all.’ Many people, including
active church members, are being drawn in.”

25. Stetzer advises Christians that they need to use social media wisely,
that Christians need to be discerning about what they read, that we
should realize that anyone on even a small budget can generate an
impressive looking website, and you should hit PAUSE before you
screed some really hateful response in anger to an internet flame war.
Christianity Today also has several articles on Qanon, and also a
podcast aimed at pastors to advise them how to steer their
parishioners away from these spiritually dangerous conspiracy theories
that are developing into a weird kind of Scientology-like religion.
And plus we have a key article from the Atlantic Magazine, which we
used as a primary source for learning bout the Prophecies of Q.

28. Pope Francis also warns us that Christians need to be careful
in Gaudete ET Exsultate that we use social media with care,
that what we say in social media should further love for
neighbor in both ourselves and our neighbor.
115. “Christians too can be caught up in networks of verbal
violence through the internet and the various forums of
digital communication. Even in Catholic media, limits can
be overstepped, defamation and slander can become
commonplace, and all ethical standards and respect for
the good name of others can be abandoned. The result is
a dangerous dichotomy, since things can be said there that
would be unacceptable in public discourse, and people
look to compensate for their own discontent by lashing out
at others. It is striking that at times, in claiming to uphold
the other commandments, they completely ignore the
eighth, which forbids bearing false witness or lying, and
ruthlessly vilify others. Here we see how the unguarded
tongue, set on fire by hell, sets all things ablaze (cf. Jas 3:6).”

29. And the national Jesuit magazine, America, also has many fine
articles on how Qanon is misleading many Catholic faithful into
spiritual danger and slander.

31. Conspiracy theories and secret societies are a real thing.
Communism, fascism, the Nazis and the KKK all relied on
conspiracy theories and secret societies to thrive.
Wondrium, formerly the Great Courses Plus, has an excellent
series of courses on secret societies.
Note there is also a lecture on the spurious Elders of Zion that
spread the slander of a Jewish cabal running the world, much like
the Qanon belief in a child sex and sacrifice ring running the
world, which is an anti-semitic trope just like the George Soros
slanders that are currently being spread.

33. QAnon is a cult for many, QAnon is almost like a religion to many
adherents, QAnon has led to multiple incidents, some involving
murder and violence. The Atlantic magazine has documented
some incidents.
QAnon is slanderous, when you spread the QAnon lies, you are
guilty of slander. Many Christians have been deceived that
somehow it is okay to spread these QAnon lies. Whenever the
right wingnut media complains about the influence of George
Soros, often this is an anti-Semitic trope. Not always, as George
Soros likes to contribute to many liberal and democratic
causes. Also, claiming that Democrats are not Christians and are
going to burn in hell is another slanderous trope.

34. YouTube Video:
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And please click on the links for interesting videos on other topics
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