Why are Religion & Fascism rising? Two faces of the same psychological/neural process.
They’re far more intertwined, and dangerous, than you might have ever believed.
SARS-CoV-2-induced frontal lobe (brain) damage makes both more likely.
A neurologist’s explanation 🧵
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Religion and authoritarianism share the same psychological architecture: submission to authority, suppression of doubt, and moral outsourcing.
Both dissolve individual responsibility and reward conformity over critical thought.
And both are on the rise, simultaneously.
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It’s no coincidence that the far right movement in the US is also deeply religious.
MAGA’s fusion of politics and evangelicalism isn’t accidental, it’s the merging of two cultic structures that thrive on fear, obedience and moral absolutism.
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