RE: Stupid things religious people say
June 2, 2025 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2025 at 3:06 pm by Alan V.)
(June 2, 2025 at 2:45 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Over the past decade, Donald Trump has drawn supporters into a story about America’s breakdown and recovery that is more spiritual than political. He is the president of an anti-institutional, tradition-skeptical, experience-worshipping age, when fewer Americans go to church but plenty of them follow gurus on YouTube. The feelings of frustration and grievance that a candidate personifies are more important than his policy platform.
His message that institutions are weak, corrupt, and deserve no loyalty; his tacit promise that you can imagine prosperity into existence regardless of what the economists say; his personal domination of the Republican Party: All of this has succeeded because public confidence in every institution, not just traditional churches, has collapsed. That cynicism extends to the workplace—the institution that makes the greatest stamp on most people’s daily life. Only 21 percent of U.S. employees strongly affirm trust in their organization’s leaders. Meanwhile, the social habits that we associate with a more devout, less tolerant age—policing boundaries, banishing heretics, expecting divine retribution to rain down on your enemies—have migrated from churches to politics. Many Americans are ready to put their faith in a political savior who says he was “saved by God.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ty/682991/
My bolding above. And yet people turn to Donald Trump, of all people? He's the least likely to really help anyone since he's for an oligarchy rather than against one.
Too many Americans have simply refused to do their homework.
