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30 Percent of Americans Believe Trump Appointed President by God (www.rawstory.com)

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Why do so many evangelical Christians support former President Donald Trump despite his decades of documented ungodly behavior?

An in-depth report from The Economist shows that it has a simple explanation: They believe that God personally appointed him to rule the United States.

In fact, the report cites a survey conducted by Denison University political scientist Paul Djupe that around 30 percent of Americans believe Trump "was anointed by God to become president."

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sigh.

Its not a book.

It is a comprehensive study that is 68 pages long not counting the pages of references.

I was able to download it and read it as a 5.2mb pdf file from the first sub link from annas-archive link I posted, maybe learn how to use the internet.

Anyway, the specific claim that Trump was annointed President by God is held by 30% of Americans is backed up by research done by the authors that shows a dramatically increased likelihood to believe this when someone scores high on a measure of a set of beliefs/views the authors define as Christian Persecution, which is also shown to be very highly correlated with another measure of Christian Nationalism, which itself is another indexed measure of beliefs, studied by the authors in this paper.

Given that various polls and studies, many referenced in the paper, but also there exist many others, show that around 40% of Americans believe the US should be a Christian Nation, openly identify as Christian Nationalists, that the idea that Trump being appointed President by God is hugely popular amongnst this group, the claim that 30% of Americans currently believe Trump was/is appointed President by God is well evidenced.

I have absolutely no idea how or why you think this is shocking. You apparently are very out of touch with current events.

Further, this /is/ big news, hence it being a major story in 'The Economist', a popular and extremely influential publication read by basically an audience of millions of Western corporate businesspeople.

Basically, Trump and his follower's derangement is so extreme that it is threatening to the stability of the global western capitalist system as Trump and his followers believe in so many ludicrous things so fervently that the kinds of corporate decisions that rely on being able to predict market conditions and general economic and social stability are now needing to be reevaluated wholesale.

Again, I have no idea how any of this is surprising to you unless you live under a rock.

[–] Maggoty 3 points 10 months ago

It's literally on Google books. With chapters. It's completely narrative up to the purchase point. Furthermore the operative study for this article wasn't the point of the book. It was part of a larger body of research to talk about Christian Nationalism.

I'm glad your link worked for you. It 501'd for me and I'm guessing quite a few other people.

But that's okay because we found an interview with the author. Both articles have mangled this study. Which really isn't that unusual in media. The actual number is 21 percent of Protestants that attend church weekly. 30 percent in certain demographics, and 54 percent in one specific demographic.

And you're going to need citations to sell me on the entirety of religious America thinking we should be a religious country. (There's whole churches that reject this idea and embrace the separation of church and state. So good luck!)

Yes it is well documented that there are Christian Nationalists who want Trump to destroy our democracy. But blowing it out of proportion by defending sensationalist stuff like this does not help defeat them. If you were at all involved in statistics you'd know this is absolutely par for the course in journalism about statistics.