How QAnon Conspiracy Is Spreading In Christian Communities Across The U.S.

[lees1975]

6. A lot of it is related to premillenial dispensational eschatology

A lot of Evangelicals buy into a futurist interpretation of the Bible's eschatology, or end times scenarios. Yhey tie the apocalyptic language of the book of Revelation to Jesus' words about the "last days" and to the prophesies of Daniel to come up with end-times predictions Conspiracy theories and the language they use plays right into that and it also makes it possible for some to claim that since the "dispensation" is changing, the concept of loving your neighbor turns into your neighbor is going to hell because he didn't believe right. And there are those who see all this conspiracy theory stuff as being prophetic. So they are ready to help it become self-fulfilling if they have to.