The motivation for the voters absolutely is religion.
We still are. I posit that the more impactful element of the evangelical vote is felt down ballot. The presidential election gets all the attention (& evangelicals benefitted massively from Trump), but the true impact is felt Dow to the school board level in over 2/3 of the country.
And the executor is religion.
I agree those who get into power will massively affect all the country. But to get into power they will do anything. Even pander to groups they may not agree with.
The executor is whatever brings the power. Socio economics, race, religion, foreign politics.
The down ballot candidates absolutely believe this stuff. They are local evangelicals who are getting elected by their social group of other local evangelicals.
Yes, and it was posted because you seemed to believe that it had always been that way.
In this case we are specifically talking about religiously motivated politics.
The politicians wanted power, and the voters they courted want their agenda, which is religious in nature, enacted.
Pretty much sums it up. It's sickening that we are moving back into the dark ages.
Oh yes. Utah has been red since 1964
Reagan began his 1980 presidential bid at Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Think he also ran in 1976 but lost out to Ford.
I think so too. I fleshed out my response to further answer your questions.
Speaking of rich folks, I heard the other day that if the Catholic church liquidated all their assets they could wipe out poverty in pretty much the entire world. Not saying that's a realistic thing to do, but just imagine how much money that is and what say 25% of it could achieve if it was put to good use instead of collecting dust in a cellar in the Vatican?
Imagine if we taxed them
Yeah religion’s definitely on the back burner there
That sounds even more unrealistic.
It really is the ultimate grift. Hell, Scientology was founded as a tax scam and people still believe in that rubbish.
A handful of Muslims could wipe out global poverty overnight without disturbing the Vatican. That's not going to happen either.
All that's missing is "Blessed be the fruit".
The problem is it won't. There will be no reckoning, unfortunately.To me that's just another platitude to tell the masses so that they accept their crappy position in the world because they believe they'll be rewarded later.
My grandmother used to tell me that in the afterlife we'll have crowns based on the good we've done in human form, and live in mansions on streets of gold. I was like, "So, we're gonna have a caste system in the heaven, eh?" Crickets. Then some rubbish attempt to undue her statements.
Karma dude. Although I know that concept is for Eastern religions
Can see it, religions borrow and steal from others. It's not like Christianity was the first to have a crucified savior and gods have existed for millenniums.
Monotheism existed long before Judaism as well.
Yep. Really cool to look at how Zoroastrianism influenced Judaism (and therefore Christianity) when the Jews were under the rule of the Persians.
Yep, it's also one of the favorite arguments for converting non-believers, threaten them with eternal suffering if they don't fall in line. This whole "worship me or I'll torture you forever" also makes a mockery of any claim that the god of the bible loves us.
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While I would like to believe it, I can't imagine the IRS acted that quickly. My guess is they may be opening an investigation.
