Current Events > The Republican Party could not survive without religion.

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And religion isnt even real.

So think about how our country is being dominated and bullied around right now by because of something that doesnt even exist.

If it weren't religion, it would be some other sort of boogeyman.
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They seem to be a party of theocracy.

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Which is funny (more like sad) because the Republicans and their supporters are some of the most hypocritical, non-Christ like acting people ever.

Religion, ignorance, and bigotry is what keeps the party alive.
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religion, in theory anyway, reduces the amount of laws necessary to govern civil society as individuals are bound to certain conventions and modes of behavior

of course this premise all falls apart due to a number of factors, including but not limited to pluralism of religious and areligious dogma in american society, the need for law to accommodate them all, and the inclination of democracies to enact legislation accordingly - the increasing rigidity of which creates the necessity of more legal action to counteract or introduce nuance to

never mind the fact that religious tradition sometimes flies in the face of empiricism, and its multigenerational evolutionary nature means it may not be sufficiently responsive

ideally the common law doctrine should have accommodated these issues but the governments of the us were not set up in a sufficiently flexible manner; thus the shortcoming was exploited and caused religious tyranny of a sort until the 20th century saw a rising tide of secularism that broke down these practices and supplanted related organic civil institutions, and in time, has arguably led to secularist forms of ideological tyranny in its own right

with that said, the gop's evangelical wing is what can only be described as a reactionary force - it seeks not to conserve the common law doctrine or organic civil institutions facilitated by religion, but to respond to the rising tide of legal secularism with enforcement of legal religiosity from the top down, whether at the federal or state levels

the evangelicals are an electoral liability to the party given their views, and yet an asset given their numbers

the gop is damned if they do accommodate them as they have difficulty tolerating anything the evangelicals don't like (or going against anything they don't like), and damned if they don't accommodate them as democrats already do so and have adapted to (and arguably electorally weaponized) the post-common law legal zeitgeist in a way the gop has yet to fully wrap its head around
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It still would, they just have to believe.
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No one can survive without Jesus since man cannot live on bread alone.
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