God bothering

I thought our commenter ' s list of reasons, via Vivek Ramaswany, why people would want to vote Republican was interesting, and possibly largely correct -- or at least it reflects the surface of how Republican candidates and pundits talk, although I think it probably doesn ' t represent all of the underlying reasons. Anyway, it gives me an agenda, so I ' m going to take the assertions one by one, starting with this one:God is real. While there is no doubt that religion, or professed religion, is a motivator for Republican voters, there obviously has to be a lot more to it than just the assertion that God is real. Joe Biden is an observant Catholic, and the vast majority of Democratic candidates and officials also profess to be religious. We elect presidents, members of congress, and other officials to carry out the business of governing, not be chaplains. So the real issue is that people have specific religious or quasi-religious beliefs that entail public policy in some way.The obvious ones, that get talked about publicly, are moral beliefs, specifically that abortion, homosexuality, and gender noncomformity are sins. Obviously they want abortion to be illegal, and treated as a criminal act. I have noted many times that there is no biblical authority for this on the contrary; and that it is a very modern conceit, which even the conservative denominations did not embrace until the 1960s. But yeah, they believe it. Most actually do want to criminalize sexual and gender no...
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