Religion has caused devastating wars. Its authoritative, master-servant construct produces an alternative reality that promotes the concentration of power in dictators. After all, religion conditions the servants to worship and blindly follow a capricious leader.
The Bible is an insidious book. In fairy tale fashion, it depicts a narcissistic creator who demands his creation worship him and blindly follow his whimsical laws. And then he threatens eternal fire if his slaves do not obey his commands.
Religion creates an alternative reality. God is invisible in three parts, presumably surrounded by angels. He gives his progeny the ability to think and then orders them to not think. He sadistically commits genocide when his servants misbehave as he ordained. He creates and impregnates a woman who bears him, a son whom God allows to die an agonizing death to atone for the sins of those hapless souls whom he created as sinners.
Above all, God is great and moves in mysterious ways. Under threat of eternal fiery damnation, his followers must worship him and act and avoid acting according to a confusing playbook. The type and number of tickets the sinner must have punched to prevent perdition is vague and ill-defined,
Driven by fear, the servant must accept and live in a world of alternate reality. Actually, it is illusory. He or she is part of a cosmic plan written by many anonymous authors before science was invented. They are told what to do and do not think for themselves.
So, it is no surprise that adherence to religion causes the slave to accept an earthly dictator and to live totally in an alternative reality peppered with conspiracy theories. Why not? The cult follower is at home. He is in a comfortable place. Trump is God. Trump does not sin. Trump moves in mysterious ways. Trump's lies are truth in the fantasy world. Trump is to be followed for fear of punishment.
The natural and fantasy worlds are on a collision course headed for annihilation. The highest calling of the truth seekers is to lead the fantasy believers to reality.
In the meantime, a vote against Trump is a life and species saver.
Bill Spriggs 11/19/2023
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