Religious fundamentalism’s link to aggression is explained entirely by authoritarianism

Evidence

Fundamentalism correlated with prejudice because fundamentalists tended to be rightwing authoritarians. If you partial out the effect of mutual relationships with RWA scores, all of the connections between religious fundamentalism and authoritarian aggression become essentially zero. Do it the other way, and the RWA-aggression correlations are just nicked. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2134

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates and specifies the vault’s Christian-nationalism authoritarianism claims (Whitehead & Perry, Cooper) by isolating RWA as the causal conduit between conservative religion and aggression.