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Disinformation Fuels A White Evangelical Movement. It Led 1 Virginia Pastor To Quit By
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Jared Stacy is still processing his decision to leave Spotswood Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, Va., last year. Until November, he was ministering to young parishioners in their 20s and 30s.
But in the four years since he had joined the church as a pastor, Stacy had found himself increasingly up against an invisible, powerful force taking hold of members of his congregation: conspiracy theories, disinformation and lies.
Stacy has seen the real consequences of these lies build up over the years; he says it has tainted the name of his faith.
Disinformation Fuels A White Evangelical Movement It Led 1 Virginia Pastor To Quit
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The danger of ambivalence
During the protests over summer after George Floyd s killing, Stacy noticed his congregation making a turn towards a conspiracy theory about child sex trafficking. I began to see on social media people ignoring or pushing away Black Lives Matter by saying, you know, oh, well, no one s over here talking about trafficking, Stacy told NPR. He said the concern about child trafficking started out as legitimate it is an awful truth that exists. But he quickly noticed that his parishioners started using it as shorthand for a lie: that Democrats with prominent roles in business, media and government are running child trafficking rings.