CBS sells another timeslot to Focus on Family during much watched football game (Patriots won 45-10)

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29. Blind faith in religion takes the ambiguity out of life/existence for conservatives.

Since they cannot tolerate gray areas, and basically everything has to be black and white in order to be tolerable for them, blind faith in religious book/religious leaders saves them from having to think. It's basically a matter of comfort and convenience for them.

"Why do I exist? Because the Grand Wazoo in the sky, or whatever the deity du jour is, made me, and sent me this book, or golden tablets, or a magical duck, whatever, to tell me what is true, so I don't really need to think about it anymore. So don't stress me out with all those disturbing questions about life, existence, truth, or the validity of authority. All my answers are right here in this book, and this book trumps all reason and logic, because the Grand Wazoo in the sky told us so, because it says so right here in this book. All scripture comes from the Grand Wazoo. And things really do go better with Coca-Cola."

I'm not saying that there is not a Creator, Love, Light, Life, Universe, what have you, I'm just saying few or no conservatives can really grasp this concept because a being of this nature would be basically too unknowable and scary to think about for a conservative, and therefore would create ambiguity. So they would prefer to believe in a book, because all they ever need is right there, down in black and white. That's why there is so much bible and koran , etc, worship going around.

Belief in and worship of a book helps quell the overwhelming, crippling, devastating fear of the unknown that exists in the consciousness of every RW conservative fundy. Consequently, the PTB preys on and perpetuates the fear in the conservative so that they will never break free and use their imagination to try to discern truth. Again, because they already have the "truth". All they ever really need to know is what is in their book. And it's questionable if they can even understand the real meaning of their own book, when the words in the book are processed through the darkened glass of their fear.

Conservatives are scared shitless of everything that is different, everything that they can't understand or control. Everything they do arises from fear. Rational, logical thinking by nature leads to using imagination to explore what is not known. So conservatives just don't go there. They don't need to. Everything has already been thought out for them. It says so right there in the book, and the book is the ultimate unquestionable truth. Amen.

I totally agree, stillwaiting. The PTB knows this, and uses religion as a mass opiate for controlling conservatives, and subsequently, uses their enslaved conservatives to control us. The non-logic, non-reason of the regressive conservative counters the logic and and reason of the progressive liberal. The PTB knows how to use this ancient formula to gain, maintain, and create a status quo of their power and control over others. It's how democracies are consistently prevented from existing and evolving. It's how they convince people that claim to believe in a peace preaching Jesus to mindlessly go to war for them in order to make them wealthier and more powerful. It's the philosophy of Caesar's, Machiavelli's, Leo Strauss's, etc. They all have the smug sense of privilege, righteousness of their greed, and belief in their superiority over others, that only an insatiable overinflated ego stoked by conscienceless sociopathy can bestow.

This is where the spontaneous arisal of Occupy and Anonymous comes in. The ancient struggle of the progressive/liberal to overcome the authoritarian PTB and create a wide sense of human community has evolved in mass consciousness as a way to overcome the control of the PTB. The ideas of a growing and evolving collective will and consciousness cannot be controlled or destroyed by the aggressions of the PTB and their flying monkeys, and this consciousness is at this moment in process of removing them from all relevance as a block on human evolution and the spread of reason, kindness, compassion, and love.

Religious conservatism and political conservatism naturally go hand in hand. The same boundary and motivator that regulates the thoughts and actions of the political conservative also regulates the thoughts and actions of the religious conservative.

Overwhelming, paralyzing fear.

Researchers help define what makes a political conservative

BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations?

Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:

Fear and aggression
Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
Uncertainty avoidance
Need for cognitive closure
Terror management

"From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml