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I'm watching Apocalypse in the Tropics documentary on Netflix about evangelicals and politics in Brazil and it's mind boggling. Why do the religious people just blindly do whatever the pastors tell them?

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[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

People are stupid. They can be made to believe any lie because either they want to believe it's true or because they are afraid it's true.

-Terry Goodkind, "Wizard's First Rule"

Hate to break it to you, it's not just religious people.

[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

This the book with the extended author self-gratifying torture sex scene in the middle that has almost nothing to do with the story?

The author who went on about people being stupid when the entire plot hinges on the fact that the main character was forced to memorize a book for like, no reason, at the beginning?

The world with a tribe of "uneducated savages" who are saved by white man ingenuity, because, despite living in an area with heavy rainfall, they never thought of making roofs that don't leak?

The obvious self-insert main character who escapes being forced to breed with said savages by convincing them his jizz is poison?

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I misread the original quote as being from Terry Pratchett and as I was reading your comment I was like "No way in hell, what is this guy talking about?".

[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Good heavens, no. Terry Pratchett is more than capable of nuance, subtext, and a love for his characters that goes beyond propping up his own fantasy.

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