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What religion could they possibly espouse? They aren’t interested in healing the sick, housing the homeless or feeding the hungry. It seems their religion is bound by guns…

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Money is a religion now, too.

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Moved away from KS, not sorry.

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Has always been. “Le veau d’or” from Gounod’s Faust based on the story from Goethe. Start about a minute in. https://youtu.be/xRuGNal1ie0

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Yup, perfect. The irony. Money is the religion. Strike down Citizen’s United.

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Not money. Power. But they are cousins in a capitalist system.

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Siamese Twins

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Satan leads the dance!

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The party of god, guns, and greed

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And the grandest of all is power, such are all the false Gods that most religion’s commandments warn against. God is nothing more than force field of energy created by each of us loving each other. “Thou shalt have no other God”. How to prevent people from using their false Gods to destroy each other and our home is the answer we need and quickly.

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The religion of the mafia.

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...which consists of tyrants, dictators and and traitors to anything decent.

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Interestingly enough, I've seen an argument that the closest actual religion to the Republican viewpoint is Satanism. By which I mean the modern (late 1960's), Anton LaVey, worship of Satan.

Key tenets of LaVey's Satanism are: selfishness, material success, whatever-it-takes determination, rejection of "mushy" moral precepts, cleverness, personal power, the list goes on....

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