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* A cornerstone tenet of the Church of the SubGenius is to "pull the wool over your own eyes"—if you're going to believe in bullshit, it better be ''your own'' bullshit. One mark of a SubGenius sermon is that it [[lampshade]]s its absurdity while preaching it with the most sincere conviction. This is one of the reasons it's called a 'post-modern religion'. Possibly the biggest piece of Doublethink on offer at these services, however, is that many members really and truly believe that other religions (read: Christianity) actually believe something that relates to the big pile of bullshit they just cooked up themselves on the basis of zero research and zero understanding. That goes double for [[The Fundamentalist|the most enthusiastic]] members of 'The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster' who do roughly the same thing while dressed as a pirate.
** The funny thing about both of those is that they work way better as parodies of Paganism. Or their own members.
* One amusing example from early 21st-century Republicanism in the United States is the sincere and simultaneous belief that Hispanic immigrants to the US are both lazy and looking enrich themselves on unemployment benefits ''and'' taking jobs away from Americans by being willing to work for lower wages.
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