2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill * * UPDATED * * [View all]Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)and even if people disagree with what Version-of-God
wants from them, they're fearful to end up in Hell,
so that's that.
My theory about why religion is taking over politics:
You can't cheat and deceive, and be at peace with
your own conscience.
So many politicians are anxious, all the time, at a
subterranean level -- because they are ignoring their
own innate conscience, dealing in cheat and deceit,
egomania.
Conscience is built-in for the purpose of guidance in
retaining one's humanity. If a person ignores it
for long enough, there is deep distress at a primal
level.
The only relief for this horror? a belief system in
a Version-of-God Who forgives them everything,
even if they keep right on doing it, and Who agrees
with their politics. (It's a Him, naturally.)
These beliefs are so foreign to the human heart
and conscience, that such people need to keep
ramming it into their own brains, to make it
stick. Like trying to jam a door shut so the
sun can't get in.