Religion

Yesterday Kadizzle had dinner with a hard core atheist.  Some of the most intelligent people Kadizzle knows are ardent anti religion people.  Religion has probably been one of the biggest frauds on the planet in so many senses.  Religion has served several purposes.  Religion is used to dominate people, extract money from people, and promote some mighty nasty agendas.  Religion primarily works by selling promises and fear.  Isn't that the way we deal with children?  To be religious you have to give up all logic and dismiss reality.  That is why religion has worked so well for Trump.   No logical person could embrace any kind of morality and still vote for Trump.  However, religion has always been able to do such obvious insane things and still keep it's followers.  One only needs to look at the inquisition, or how any battle with other religions took place.

The most amazing phenomenon are the preachers who so clearly bilk their followers.  Billy
Graham was the modern con man.  Now you have Pat Robertson, and Joel Epstein.  These guys rape the stupid for millions.  It is perfectly legal to defraud people using religion.  This leaves out all the sexual abuse committed by the religious.  Add to that how the Catholic Church actually had young girls enslaved in laundries up until 1967.  So why do people embrace this insanity? Why do people gamble?  Humans have an immense capacity to engage in false hope. When a man like Trump can get the support of religion you know the game is close to over.