...but one of them is a great big whopper: that a core belief of Q/Anon followers is that violence may be necessary.
Q has had a huge influence in making people wait and see what is going to happen, and has asserted that events are under control, so that violence on the part of the public will not even be needed.
That is, in fact, the primary effect of Q, and probably is also an intended effect of Q.
Secondarily, Q has taught people to look beyond pat explanations of events. The mistrust people have these days toward various people and institutions is only them beginning to reap what they have amply sown.
You cannot have a viable society with such rampant deceit. Q incorporated a lot of disinformation and ambiguity into the drops, but there were also accepted facts being assembled into toward a coherent picture that appears to be true. Q connected a number of dots that many people would have preferred be left scattered.
Once you start asking the right questions, you can start reaching the right conclusions. The conspiracy theories provide the questions, but the information to support them usually comes through conventional channels.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bg5a/qanon-conspiracy-theory-prri-poll
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
