It proves the theory that intelligence and gender will not protect you from brainwashing by a cult. We can be born into a family culture of toxic racist patriarchy and be traumatised by it. Still, it is so normalised we become its defender and, in turn, oppress and traumatise the next generation and so on. As long as religion is used to control people it is religious extremism and a cult.
White Christian Fundamentalist Nationalism is a form of mental illness. Any violent promulgation of religious dogma is also mental illness in action.
It proves the theory that intelligence and gender will not protect you from brainwashing by a cult. We can be born into a family culture of toxic racist patriarchy and be traumatised by it. Still, it is so normalised we become its defender and, in turn, oppress and traumatise the next generation and so on. As long as religion is used to control people it is religious extremism and a cult.