Politicians often reflect the wishes of the people who vote them in. I don't think it's a coincidence that "only the threat of hell keeps people from doing bad things" Christians tend to vote republican.
Personality disorders vote for personality disorders
It doesn't prevent many of them from doing bad things. They think they will be forgiven as long as they are believers.
I think at this point that ship has sailed - they don't even believe themselves anymore, e.g. many don't go to church. Certainly the Karens do not bother to "love one another", or to feed the poor, give comfort to those in prison, take care of widows & orphans, care that the worker deserves their wages, etc. It is cultural at this point, less than religious.
But not entirely, bc in the last Presidential election "evangelical Christians" did have the single highest majority of people in it voting for Trump. So there's that, though I am saying that it just seems a more complex mixture than only that.
Politicians often reflect the wishes of the people who vote them in. I don't think it's a coincidence that "only the threat of hell keeps people from doing bad things" Christians tend to vote republican.
Personality disorders vote for personality disorders
It doesn't prevent many of them from doing bad things. They think they will be forgiven as long as they are believers.
I think at this point that ship has sailed - they don't even believe themselves anymore, e.g. many don't go to church. Certainly the Karens do not bother to "love one another", or to feed the poor, give comfort to those in prison, take care of widows & orphans, care that the worker deserves their wages, etc. It is cultural at this point, less than religious.
But not entirely, bc in the last Presidential election "evangelical Christians" did have the single highest majority of people in it voting for Trump. So there's that, though I am saying that it just seems a more complex mixture than only that.