Months ago, we planned to kick off Season 2 with two episodes that … we thought … were quite unrelated: the Insurrection at Capitol Hill, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. And yet our research revealed a common thread running through both: QAnon and Evangelicals walking hand-in-hand in revolt. While interviewing people to gauge their awareness and interest in these two topics, we learned that the thread led to something called “the Great Reset.”
Our bet is that you don’t remember ever hearing about anything called the Great Reset. We certainly hadn’t. When we did the homework to see what was going on here, weren’t we surprised to learn that it has to do with a global cabal trying to take over the world, using COVID-19 to bring the world to its knees, and only Donald Trump was standing in their way to prevent this “secret” plot. In fact, some Evangelicals see this cabal being led by Satan himself.
We kid you not.
If you think these ideas are completely removed from your own reality, think again.
We’ve all heard of conspiracy theories of world takeover … world governments colluding … government control of the populace … banks and billionaires exerting influence. It’s the stuff of many Hollywood movies. And maybe you’ve sometimes even wondered if “there might be some kernel of truth here”. This is precisely the fringe of the world of reality known as QAnon.
And many of us who have moved in Christian circles have often heard of spiritual warfare … children of light against children of darkness … Christians needing to stand up against a growing evil … Dominion theology. We may also have heard that we now live in the End Times: apocalyptic images featuring Armageddon, the Beast, the Anti-Christ. Fringe ideas of Christendom perhaps, but this is precisely the world of Evangelicalism in America.
And those two fringe worlds resonate with each other.
The Great Reset indeed!
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