Maximus Nyseen writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n There are two dominant heresies alive in American Christianity today, which would be fundamentalism and nationalism.<\/p>\n Fundamentalism<\/strong>\u00a0advocates an entirely unhistorical theological viewpoint that the Bible is a scientific textbook, and that any scientific hypothesis, theory, or fact that \u201copposes\u201d some supposed scientific principle believed to be written in the Bible must be rejected as some sort of atheist attack on the faith.<\/p>\n This is a fairly modern heresy, one that entirely rejects historical theological discovery and exegetical studies, and only really came into prominence in the earlier part of the 20th Century. No one in antiquity, the early church, or the vast majority of the history of the Church held to any notion of fundamentalism.<\/p>\n Nationalism<\/strong>\u00a0advocates the view that America is God\u2019s \u201cspecial nation\u201d and that this nation is the best nation that\u2019s ever existed anywhere, and implicitly propagates that all other nations, peoples, and races have something defective, lacking, wrong, or even evil in them.<\/span><\/p>\n Both of these roots have brought forth the modern fruit of utter insanity that runs the gamut of American Christianity, in all its discordant and vile glory. The spectacle is filled to the brim with non-sensical, incoherent, and bigoted conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n Because of the fundamentalist root that disdains science and empiricism, it feels like no amount of rational discourse or evidence can convince people trapped within this heretical bubble that they are plainly and factually incorrect; and because of the partisan-nationalist root, these people only trust the words of Donald J. Trump, against literally anyone else (even others that are inside the Trump administration).<\/p>\n And once one injects the Pentecostal-Charismatic alloy of mysticism into this heresy, then these individuals believe that only they know the \u201ctruth\u201d since only they can \u201chear from God.\u201d<\/p>\n Conspiracy theories are by and large already appealing for individuals that have some sort of gnostic and esoteric impulse, in believing themselves to be a part of some enlightened group that knows how things \u201ctruly\u201d operate, against the readily accepted narrative of the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n Similarly, Pentecostals and Charismatics, because of our attraction to prophecy, glossolalia, and other aspects of the supernatural, also have a somewhat commensurate impulse as well.<\/p>\n So when these two spheres intersect, it produces quite a powerful societal phenomenon. A typical conspiracy theorist will delight in their hidden knowledge but it usually begins and ends there; conversely, the Charismatic conspiracy theorist will intermingle prophecy and God\u2019s sovereignty into the equation, producing an explosive cocktail of radicalism, for they believe God to be on their side in exposing \u201cthe truth.\u201d<\/p>\n Now add social media<\/strong>\u00a0into this cocktail, with its \u201cbubbling\u201d feedback-looping mechanism, and anyone already itching in this direction will now primarily only see posts, memes, and videos that reinforce these perspectives, day after day after day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n