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the_waffler posted...

To be clear, I wouldn't have known any of this without research. But that's exactly what makes me so mad about a lot of conservatives and their mouth-pieces. They don't care if they have even the slightest idea what they're talking about. They will just start blabbering and living out their victim-complex and will learn absolutly nothing from being proven wrong time and time again.

This is the problem with ignorance. If you don't learn about anything beyond your own life, the only way you ever understand anything is to try and reframe it within the context of your own limited world view. If you don't know something as simple as "hey look at that weird headpiece that blue dude is wearing, I've seen stuff like that a lot in Greek mythology," but you do know that "demons exist, gay people bad, gay people and demons! DEMONS AND GAY PEOPLE! TABLES WITH PEOPLE ALONG THEM! MUST BE MOCKING JESUS! MUST BE!" well...

Someone with a world view this narrow actively does not want to learn. They care more about the narrative than anything else, because forcing everything they see to follow a narrative in their head makes their life simple and easy to understand. They don't WANT to think or learn about other cultures or history because it undermines the story by which they shape the thoughts they have on the world. If you asked them why it is that there's so much Roman-esque architecture in old US government buildings, they wouldn't be able to tell you, because after all, this is a CHRISTIAN nation built of CHRISTIAN values, not degenerate evil GAY ROMANS (heh).

They don't know anything about other cultures, and therefore any symbolism that isn't overtly Christian to them? To them, it MUST be DEMONIC. It MUST be, especially if it has ANYTHING to do with LGBT+ people.

Worse still, they are convinced that educating themselves about anyone or anything that doesn't just reinforce their beliefs would be a threat to their faith, so they actively spurn learning anything about anyone else. In so doing, they trap themselves into this ignorant world view, where they don't understand anything, but they don't have to, because anything they don't understand = DEMONS! SATAN! DEVIL! and so act as though they do, in fact, already have all the answers even though there's not a thing rattling around between their ears. This is a very easy line of thought for them to fall into because it's also the way they think about other parts of their religion. Example:
Ray Comfort: How did matter come into being?
?: We don't know exactly, but we are pretty sure about how the universe came to be shaped how it is.
Ray Comfort: Well, I know how. God made it come into being, and I know that because the Bible says so and the Bible is the Word of God so that's how it happened.
?: How do you know the Bible is the word of god? And how did god do that?
Ray Comfort: Because it is, and He just did.

Proving the veracity of the narrative is irrelevant. It is taken as given that it is true. Evidence doesn't matter. What's important is supporting one's "story."

This isn't necessarily where stupid narratives like "pokemon is demonic" originate, but it IS how such a narrative propagates among believers.