Why so many evangelicals are susceptible to QAnon craziness

As the Christian conservative writer David French told me, “one reason why Q has taken hold in parts of the church” is that it “mimics revivalist/prophetic style/content.”... Churches that lack a rigid denominational hierarchy are more susceptible, since they are not held accountable by any sort of sanctioning authority. With attendance declining nationally, they are increasingly competing for a dwindling number of congregants (or viewers/donors), which tends to incentivize more emotional or salacious content. There’s also a theological reason. The more charismatic Christian preachers stress that “we walk by faith, not sight,” as well as the spiritual gift of prophecy. These are all orthodox Christian teachings, but you can see how false teachers might appropriate the concepts of divine revelation and blind faith in Jesus and redirect them toward conspiracy theories and cult-like behavior. As Ed Stetzer, an evangelical pastor and executive director of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, told FiveThirtyEight last month, “QAnon is a train that runs on the tracks that religion has already put in place.”