Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. After the storming of the

Capitol last Wednesday if you read the news you started to hear that many of the people

who were involved have associations with a conspiracy theory group called

QAnon. In fact, the woman who was shot, she was a protester, she was shot by police and she was trying to

break into the Capitol, had been over several years before going there

somewhat radicalized by Kianan. This was a big part of her thinking, a big part of her life. She said before she

went there that she was going to bring the quote-unquote storm which is this day of judgment in the world of Q&on and so it's brought Q&on into the

foreground of the news once again it's not the first. Perhaps what's more interesting to me is the fact that mixed in with a lot of these Q&on conspiracy theorists are Christians. That the ideas that have been mainstreamed by Q&on, you are beginning to see crop up in the thinking of a lot of evangelicals. Now, I don't actually personally know a lot of people who put a lot of stock into these ideas but there's enough of it

happening and we're a Christian podcast I think it's a worthy conversation for us

today now Keith you didn't want us to talk about this today. I think this whole conversation on

conspiracy theories is interesting but it is ambiguous in my mind and

hopefully what we can do is bring some clarity to our thinking.

And like Patrick said this particular conspiracy theory is affecting the church, but I think

that's unique to the United States. In other words, when you see this same group,

QAnon, around the world, they're not associated with Christians much, or the church.

They're associated with hippies or people from the left or people

who seemingly have no connection to the evangelical church. This is a worldwide conspiracy theory that's moving very fast.

And the United States...

There's protests in Berlin recently, it's happening in Australia, it's happening all over the world right now.

Well, if I understand it right... Berliners wearing, I think, Trump shirts and Q-Ans shirts,

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