Ultra-Conservatives treat Politics as if it was religious Faith

[_Archangel_]

It's so stupid that for some reasons it never happened to me to connect these two exact dots.

That's why conservative are more prone to incoherence, lack of research, and are ok with ignoring all the misbehaviours and darkspots of their leaders (or prophets) if it means supporting the over-arching concepts they blindly adhere to.

What's important is having faith in the Saviour (the president, PM, candidate) and resist the Devil (Wokism, Progressivism etc.) and everithing will be allright.
That means all the healhy and practical Conservative treats get shunned in favour of an internal moral reassurance that has little to do with making day-to-day life better for the most poeple.

And of course, it's a vicious circle: Dogmatic framework influences the way they engage with politics and the way they interpret religious teaching is filtered through  their political views.

Obviously, one could make the case that Leftist extimists treat their political beliefs as a religion aswell, and I would agree to some extent, there is certainly some overlap, but in their case their worship disincarnate, often unapplicable Ideals, while conservatives lean more on projecting their beliefs on a physical individual.

Edited April 4 by _Archangel_

[Elliott]

Yep, tribalism

 

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

On 04/04/2026 at 7:28 AM, _Archangel_ said:

It's so stupid that for some reasons it never happened to me to connect these two exact dots.

That's why conservative are more prone to incoherence, lack of research, and are ok with ignoring all the misbehaviours and darkspots of their leaders (or prophets) if it means supporting the over-arching concepts they blindly adhere to.

What's important is having faith in the Saviour (the president, PM, candidate) and resist the Devil (Wokism, Progressivism etc.) and everithing will be allright.
That means all the healhy and practical Conservative treats get shunned in favour of an internal moral reassurance that has little to do with making day-to-day life better for the most poeple.

And of course, it's a vicious circle: Dogmatic framework influences the way they engage with politics and the way they interpret religious teaching is filtered through  their political views.

Obviously, one could make the case that Leftist extimists treat their political beliefs as a religion aswell, and I would agree to some extent, there is certainly some overlap, but in their case their worship disincarnate, often unapplicable Ideals, while conservatives lean more on projecting their beliefs on a physical individual.

Patriarchy

[Leo Gura]

They treat it exactly like team sports, and they really believe their team is God's chosen one.

[_Archangel_]

bewere Leo, someone in Trump's team might be monitoring the forum

 

[gengar]

Are you sure you aren't the foolish one for following the secularist assumption that religion and politics are two separate things, and not one thing, like it has been since the dawn of civilization?

[Elliott]

8 minutes ago, gengar said:

Are you sure you aren't the foolish one for following the secularist assumption that religion and politics are two separate things, and not one thing, like it has been since the dawn of civilization?

They follow Trump in this instance though like he's a pope. Changing their values to his whims.

[Zen LaCroix]

1 hour ago, Elliott said:

They follow Trump in this instance though like he's a pope. Changing their values to his whims.

So true. The Republican party was so anti-war a few years ago. Now all of a sudden they're so pro Iran war

[Elliott]

7 minutes ago, Zen LaCroix said:

So true. The Republican party was so anti-war a few years ago. Now all of a sudden they're so pro Iran war

Look at the Alex Pretti shooting, " he shouldn't have had a gun!", epstein files, US debt,.... "high gas prices are good!"

Edited Thursday at 02:58 AM by Elliott

[Elliott]

Hegseth constantly promotes Christianity, says its his entire life 

 

"BREAKING: . Pete Hegseth gets busted quoting a FAKE Bible verse in a speech at the Pentagon that was actually written by Hollywood for a movie!

 

Pete Hegseth, the world’s most embarrassing try-hard tough guy, thought he’d sound really cool by delivering a Bible verse in a recent speech at the Pentagon. A verse from Ezekiel 25:17.

 

“The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men,” Hegseth prayed. 

 

“Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherd the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother. And you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee, and amen,” said Hegseth, who changed some parts of the verse to be about the pilots in the search and rescue mission for the airman shot down over Iran. 

 

Film buffs will immediately recognize this as the verse from Quentin Tarantino's hyperviolent black comedy Pulp Fiction, right before Samuel L. Jackson’s character, Jules, murders an unarmed man in cold blood. 

 

Hegseth, of course, is too stupid to realize that the Bible verse is satire, mocking men who cloak themselves in the Bible to justify and whitewash their extremely unholy acts of violence against their fellow men. 

 

He probably just thinks it sounded cool, not realizing that he is unwittingly drawing parallels between a fictional hitman for hire and himself that are quite apt. 

 

While he didn’t pull the trigger himself, thousands of people are dead, including hundreds of children, because of his orders, and he has to turn to fake Bible quotes to justify himself because there’s nothing in the teachings of Jesus that would ever condone that kind of mass slaughter."

[Elliott]

God given right to segregation!

Edited 11 hours ago by Elliott