The framing of fundamentalist Christians for understanding the world is a strict, always absolutely unquestionably right father who is swift to punish those disobedient to his flawless and immutable ruleset.
This produces an obsession with “rightness” (or, one might say, it puts the “right” in “righteousness”). It’s a nuance-free view of the world, that purports to do away with complexity or ambiguity of any kind. It fits the need for perceived absolute moral clarity in all things. It makes a virtue of ignoring anything your senses deliver to you, that does not fit the dogma. Indeed, it makes a virtue of ignoring logical holes in the dogma that one could easily drive a truck through.
This is why the Bible MUST be inerrant and, in the vast majority of cases, is said to be far more unambiguous and “plain” and “clear” than it actually is.
This also explains why apologists are irony impaired, appreciation of irony requires a certain understanding of nuanced complexity, an understanding they always seem to lack.
This attitude is very simply defined as a closed mind.
They can also be so out of touch with social context that they don’t realize when they’re being unintentionally funny.
And so out of touch with themselves and at times their own humanity (and therefore that of others) that they don’t realize when they’re being assholes. Or worse.
I’m usually willing to believe they don’t mean to be nasty, or at least that ordinary believers usually don’t. Those in leadership though … those with power and influence … are all too often, inherently nasty people hiding behind god’s skirts, so to speak. I think when you get to a certain level of power over the flock, you can’t but see all the leaky abstractions and start manipulating people with them, deliberately.
And I don’t just mean the clergy. Christian employers, for example, often treat employees and even customers in ways that suggest that if you question them you’re questioning god.
It didn’t take too many bad experiences for me to start steering clear of businesses displaying the Christian “fish” symbol or other “virtue” signaling. They were most often somewhere between subpar and downright dishonest. If you have to bring Jesus into it, you probably aren’t very much like he was alleged to be.
Boy am I glad that I live in a corner of the world where, normally, noone give a shit about your religion or lack thereof. The only exceptions are religious organisations and charities, and private schools. These employers are permitted to put terms into the work contract where the employee declare that they are religious and will adhere to certain rules and expectations. Examples: Salvation Army, bible schools, private christian schools). Other than that, it’s live and let live, and if the employer harasses employees with religious shit, it will be food for trade union lawyers. But of course, there will always be sociopath asshole employers in all worldviews.