What I mean when I say that politics is the religion of Satan is that it causes people to behave badly. At the top of the list is war, of course. People often accuse religion of causing wars, but we have seen how when politics and religion are separated, religion becomes rather non-threatening whereas politics continues with the bloodshed apace. The United States can’t seem to stop fighting wars, although it has a Constitutional provision keeping religion out of its government. Meanwhile, the Methodists and Unitarians manage to stay fairly non-threatening. It turns out that religion is violent only when it is co-opted by politics, and it is politics that is the actual culprit.

Now the reason why politics makes people behave badly is that politics is, at bottom, about allocation of resources. That’s why interest groups try to funnel money to politicians, so that politicians will reward such efforts with legislation that will assist those interest groups in gaining control of resources. And gaining control of resources is approached as a zero-sum game. Some interests succeed in getting control of resources, and others get screwed. Those who succeed in getting control of resources are call the “rich.” Those who get screwed are called the “poor.” The rich are able to redirect the resources they have gained back to the politicians, who reward them with yet more resources. The poor have no resources to donate, and thus continue to get screwed.

FK – Politics and religion have gone hand in hand from the beginning. With religion the ‘resource’ is ‘souls’ or rather the human mind and heart. Also how many churches don’t collect tithes?

Resources and pride are the reason for most wars but religion is often/usually the good excuse. See the modern empire of note’s proxy wars in the middle east for the Israeli empire.

At one time preachers and pulpits served to increase human liberty. Now they at the least have been infiltrated/indoctrinated and serve to keep the slaves working. Or maybe they always did.

Simple sad fact: Modern ‘christianity’ is a big part of the reason we’re not living in the free country we’re supposed to be living in. It was infiltrated long ago if not created for control.

Christian rebels and modern cowards