I’m still confused by this.
My argument (and I’m not trying to hijack a thread in ATMB, I’m just trying to explain myself) is basically this.
There are 3 psychological metrics that are interconnected.
Right wing authoritarianism (RWA)
Most measures of religiosity, such as church attendance and affiliation, are positively correlated with the authoritarian personality cluster, which includes submission to authority, conventionality, and intolerance of out-groups. The correlation is especially strong between religious fundamentalism (defined as belief in an "inerrant set of religious teachings") and authoritarianism, both of which are characterized by low openness to experience, high rigidity, and low cognitive complexit The Roma...
https://www.scilit.com/publications/ddee98b4b0d24d9c87dffd4fa5cccd22
I made this thread before discussing the massive overlap between people who score high on SDO and RWA, and people who strongly support Trump.
For anyone who doesn’t know what right wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) they are personality metrics.
People high in RWA tend to see the world as threatening, they feel that social cohesion is necessary to keep society safe and stable, and they see marginalized groups as threats. They do not want an egalitarian society because they think it’ll cause society to fall apart and will make it easier for foreign and domestic threats to hurt them.
People high in SDO …
But people who score high on RF also tend to score high on SDO and RWA. So if a white person says they are strongly religious I make an assumption that ‘this person probably scores high on RWA and SDO too, until proven otherwise’.
Which I do not feel was off topic.