[krig]

No, that is not what I am insinuating. Your reading of my comment is as shallow as the article. I am insinuating that this ability to absorb a narrative and act on it, disregarding the well-being of other human beings, is innate in all humans. The Rapture narrative is only one example. I gave others. I can give another that may appeal more to someone who identifies as right-wing: Communism is a narrative, a romantic fiction, that led to horrible outcomes for innumerable people.

To believe that "they will not act on it" is a factual statement is horribly naive. People "act on it" all the time!

[worklogin]

> The christian right of the US has the apocalyptic narrative of the Rapture, just waiting for the right circumstances to blow into the same kind of fanatic destruction as that of ISIS.

You literally say the Christian right is waiting for the right time to commit acts like ISIS.