On the one hand you have BIG CHURCH influencers, TV preachers, small town Reverends, fundamentalist Bible scholars, Young Earth Christo-theme park owners, Creationists, Pre as well as Post Millennialist theologians and millions upon millions of ordinary Bible bros and sisters looking at the Bible as 100% accurate reliable history, geography and sociology. The Garden of Eden and the Serpent and the apple core can be found if we just dig deep enough somewhere up in northern Iraq. Jesus turned water into the finest Shiraz wine. Millions of Hebrew slaves sought asylum in the Sinai desert where they wandered about for 40 years eating bread that fell from heaven and water that fountained out of stone.
These nuts have an inordinate amount of influence on American politics, society and culture. Whenever they have a problem to solve they look back to the Book of Numbers to figure out what a tribe of olive farmers in the 8th century BCE wrote down on some scroll.
On the other hand you have BIG TECH billionaires, Weird as shit TECH bros, AI enthusiasts, Chainsaw wielding neo Nazis and millions upon millions of basement dwelling boys and girls who aspire to be the world’s first Tech Trillionaire, watching Star Wars, Dune and reading Heinlein, Asimov, Dick and the Strugatsky brothers as a precise guide to life in the future. Warp Drive? Why not. Eternal Life? Let’s go. Colonies on Mars? Just a few years and tax breaks away, bro.
These goons have an inordinate amount of influence on American politics, society and culture. Whenever they have a problem to solve return to Luke Skywalker and Yoda to figure out what a bunch of CGI movie characters think.
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Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits 