The QAnon movement

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I don’t know what people’s views are on this, but I wanted to highlight this since it seems to be growing and brainwashing a lot of Christians and young people, and actually doing a lot of harm to some people and families.

What is QAnon?

QAnon is a far right-wing, loosely organized network and community of believers who embrace a range of unsubstantiated beliefs. These views center around the idea that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles—mainly consisting of what they see as elitist Democrats, politicians, journalists, entertainment moguls and other institutional figures—have long controlled much of the so-called “deep state” government, which they say seeks to undermine President Trump, mostly with aid of media and entertainment outlets.

Source: What Is QAnon? What We Know About the Conspiracy-Theory Group - WSJ

I live in the UK, and the movement is also growing here and here are two articles that go into detail about the seriousness of its influence and spread:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/i-lost-my-best-friend-to-qanon_uk_5f8707abc5b6e9e76fb95a96

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...or-qanon-activity_uk_5f91210ac5b61c185f471e8a

So really this is just to say to people to keep vigilant with concerns to this growing movement.
 
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I had no idea these nut jobs has crossed over to the UK.

It’s an indictment of our education system and people’s gullibility. It’s SAD.
 
Sounds like another variation on the New World Order, Illuminati, and Masonic conspiracies.

So how many groups should we fear now? I’m starting to lose count.
 
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don’t know what people’s views are on this, but I wanted to highlight this since it seems to be growing and brainwashing a lot of Christians and young people,
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There’s a sucker born every minute, I reckon.

From what I’ve read this stuff is on the order of Pizzagate.

My response to it is, you can’t fix stupid.
 
A few years ago, my husband and I went to Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor to show support after some nut drove there to shoot up the restaurant. We also went because they have good pizza there although it’s more than i like to pay for pizza.

Pizza was great, service was terrible, and unfortunately it was the day of the Women’s March so the place was awash in P hats. We enjoyed our pizza anyway.
 
How many are there in this group? 20

Look at all the nut jobs that think kennedy was murdered by (insert 1 of 500+ plus conspiracies’) The nuts are in the millions.
 
Thank god you posted this. My mom is super catholic but has lived a hard life and is prone to conspiratorial thinking. Luckily I can pull her back to reality with patience and love.
But yes this is really ruining families. There’s a whole subreddit called “ qanon casualties”

I was public school educated and attended a private catholic college And while philosophy was super painful- I’m super thankful I took it.

If philosophy was required learning for graduating high school perhaps we would all be better at critical thinking, and better at arguing without ripping each other’s jugulars with stupid straw men.

Sad that people fall for this stuff.
 
I often think it is likely some kind of mental disorder that has not yet been identified by science.

My husband and I were both baffled that anyone would spend more than a passing five minutes even thinking about such conspiracy stuff. Sure, there’s a possibility that some wealthy or well-connected person has a big skeleton in the closet, and there’s even a significant likelihood that some cities or towns had connected networks of people all involved in some concerted criminal activity like child sexual abuse (we see that in some of our own dioceses sadly) but these conspiracy heads always take it too far and it’s like they enjoy the complexity of building the big picture in their head. Anybody else would just say, “Yeah some political people/ rich people/ etc are perverts, sick world isn’t it” and go back to what they were doing.
 
This Q stuff is mind numbling stupid. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
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What is QAnon?
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its not big here, just sounds like another nutty secular group trying for 15 minutes of fame. I would be very careful in accusing this group of what you have .
Pizza gate whatever that is, probably something to do with having pineapple on your pizza along side anchovies, sounds much more dangerous.
 
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Facebook thinks Trent Horn is involved with it. Trent Horn is surprised to find out he’s involved with it.
 
“QAnon” is just vague predictions and supposed insider information from someone or a group of people who say they work at some level of government. It’s not secretive. All of this “information” and predictions are easily available on one website. At it’s worst it’s just made up and a waste of time, I don’t understand the hype surrounding it now in the media.
 
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We have them here too, they “help” spread coronavirus. Unfortunately not banned yet.
Some politicians and scientists promote QAnon here.
 
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They’re in Ireland as well. Not very big yet and hopefully it stays that way.
 
Croatia, Europe. They organize protests against coronavirus measures, have online groups where they share conspiracy theories and people join those groups.
Some politicians who sit in parliament give public support to it and support rebellion. Such things do not remain “only on the internet”. Also some scientists, doctors, epidemiologists. They spread conspiracy theories about vaccinations, coronavirus and masks to the extent that people actually apply it.
And precisely because non-compliance with measures against coronavirus we have biggest numbers ever.
Our health care system is falling apart.
Even attendants who have to ensure compliance are not complying with the measures and say “it is lie”.
One of our MPs from the beginning says that the coronavirus is a scam, that the elderly will die anyway and that there is nothing to worry about. We are a small country and there are too many people who believe in it.
 
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but I wanted to highlight this since it seems to be growing and brainwashing a lot of Christians
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I can say it’s true in my country because most of those who support coronavirus conspiracy theories are Catholics. Minority, but still… I was shocked to see some really pious people organising protests and being disobedient. I would never in my craziest dreams put them in that box. I hope they will leave that mindset and help in these difficult times.
 
Amongst its many features, the internet has been a mighty engine of superstition and magical thinking.
 
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