As I recall, on the basis of a misinterpretation of Romans 4:17b (“calleth those things which be not as though they were”), Charismatics have been trumpeting fake news as a disciplined spiritual practice for decades. This makes them unusually comfortable with and skilled at newspeak and doublethink—about events and moral performance both—and prone to interpreting everything they claim and hear as being of heavenly import. This helps me understand part of our current national political scene.