...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
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
