Tara Isabella Burton on the bizarre blend between QAnon and the wellness industry

QAnon is a strange internet phenomenon that presents itself as a government insider, drip-feeding to its online followers supposedly hidden truths about groups that really control the world.

As the world saw on January 6, when hundreds of extremists overran the US capitol, there’s some overlap with Donald Trump supporters.

It might surprise you to learn there’s also an overlap with parts of the so-called “wellness industry”.

Dr Tara Isabella Burton is a columnist for the Religion News Service and author of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World. She looked into the connections for a recent column. She also discovered the quasi-religious undertone to QAnon. 

Dr. Damon T. Berry, author of the book, Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism, spoke to Andrew West in 2017. He argues that much of the white nationalist movement – linked these days with QAnon – opposes Christianity as too soft and cuddly and multicultural.  

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