Conservative Politics and Religion Both Live in Imaginary Worlds

I happened to get a slick telephone scam call at the same time I was reading an article about the self-evidence of God. It struck me how similar the caller was to the article I was reading.  

The caller said he was a representative of the Republican "movement" to take back America. Would I send $50 or $75 to help this important effort? When I asked what the "movement" or "effort" were about he over and over talked of election fraud, integrity of elections, illegal voting and so on. He said things that are just preposterous like, "There are states that never update their voter rolls." I pointed out that absolutely is impossible but it bounced right off of him. He said "There are dead people on voting rolls." I pointed out that when a person dies the day before an election the dead person's name will be on the roll--of course there are dead people on the voting rolls. There were other things he said about elections that were patently false. But, facts and evidence did not matter to him because it is self-evident our elections are loaded with fraud. He did not say Trump was robbed due to fraud but that seemed to be underneath everything he said. 

The link article goes over the same kind of self-evident thinking about a real and sovereign God. He writes about "the universe." It's the old saw that because there is a universe and no one knows where it came from the answer has to be there is a God. To him this makes God self-evident. There are nine reasons there has to be a God, most of them are based on something he quotes from the Bible. If I understand him correctly because God wrote the Bible whatever explanation it provides for something, everything has to have a designer, it was due to the design of God.

That Trump was robbed of an election in 2020 and there is a God are products of human imagination. Minds came up with these ideas and minds crowd out corrections by others. I would guess there have been countless times where imaginary beings and events were passed from person to person in the 300K years of humans. Some brains seem to be wired to accept incoming falsehoods and reject incoming corrections. 

Once in a while there is some hope. Kansas voters rejecting the idea one fertilized cell in a human being is one. Liz Chaney, knowing she could retain a position of power and influence by repeating a lie and saying no, is another.