But evangelical leaders warn that’s no guarantee their rank and file will stay involved in politics if Republicans abandon socially conservative issues, like abortion and gay marriage, even as they lean in on others, like banning transgender kids from participating in youth sports. In July, Trump nearly sparked a platform fight at the Republican National Convention over language that couched abortion as primarily in the hands of the states, a position anti-abortion advocates almost uniformly oppose.
We can only hope that he continues to piss them off and they abandon him.
Its crazy how all those “issues” encroach on the freedoms of others and do not effect them one bit. Every single one is about controlling others. Yaldabaoth, indeed.
Isn’t that the essence of religion?
No, religion at its core is a coping mechanism for the finite aspect of life. People really dont like that death seems to be you going away forever.
No, most religions encourage people to practice stewardship when they’re generally going to benefit more from destroying the world around them for their benefit.
For example, before semi modern times you could generally gain more from cheating and stealing even as a peasant. But society needed everyone to be good to eachother and society itself in order to progress.
That’s the main purpose of religion. That’s why most popular religions tell people they’ll get an eternal reward later if they live this life unselfishly.
My viewpoint is probably biased towards Christianity but religions evolve over time with populations and culture. That framework is still there. Though, in the Western World today, practicioners are mostly focused on the afterlife/living forever aspect. I feel its more apt to refer to today’s culture rather than medieval culture as religion is really made up of the current people who practice it.
It’s simple, you see. Everyone else is wrong but them.