Creationism is the belief that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. A Gallup poll with data from May 2024 gave these results:
This data could be explained by religion inhibiting people from believing in evidence from science that contradicts the creationism story. One personal surprise in the data is that 32% of Catholics believe in creationism despite the Pope saying that science is real and true. Science completely contradicts creationism. Perplexity comments about what the Pope said:
On October 27, 2014, Pope Francis addressed the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, declaring that the theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and do not contradict the existence of a divine creator.
In his address, Pope Francis stated that "The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it".
He also affirmed that "Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve."
Pope Francis emphasized that God is not "a magician with a magic wand" and that when reading about Creation in Genesis, we should not imagine God as such. [Hm, what should people imagine God as?]
The Pope's logic eludes me, but that is beside the point. The Pope has faith. Those 32% of creationist Catholics also have faith. But that is just their own faith, not the Pope's. Wimpy science is stuck with mundane data, empirical facts and human reasoning.
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In the most direct assertion that he plans to establish a permanent Christian theocracy-autocratic dictatorship, the NYT reports about DJT's explicit promise (not paywalled) to his Christian supporters:
In the closing minutes of his speech to a gathering of religious conservatives on Friday night, former President Donald J. Trump told Christians that if they voted him into office in November, they would never need to vote again.
“Christians, get out and vote. Just this time,” he said at The Believers’ Summit, an event hosted by the conservative advocacy group Turning Point Action, in West Palm Beach, Fla. “You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”
Mr. Trump, who never made a particular display of religious observance before entering politics, continued: “I love you, Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you, you got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.”
Mr. Trump’s suggestion that Christians would not have to vote again if he is elected quickly spread across social media. Some argued that it was a threat that the 2024 election could be the nation’s last if he were to win and claimed it was further evidence of an authoritarian, anti-democratic bent he has displayed throughout his political candidacy.
Since his 2020 loss, Mr. Trump, who often praises strongmen leaders on the trail, has further embraced a brand of conservatism that experts on autocracy have said veers toward totalitarian. [Hm, what a stupid thing to write -- DJT is far too lazy, mentally deranged and narcissistic to be a totalitarian, he is just a kleptocratic dictator]
Here we have DJT explicitly telling Christian theocrats that he will deliver to them an untouchable Christian theocracy. That package implicitly but clearly includes access to taxpayer money to run Christian religious and brain washing operations (schools). DJT's authoritarian intent could not be much clearer.
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