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Tyrants and Religion

Jan 30, 2018

Tyrants and Religion

Tyrants like to use religion to control people. Faith should never be a code word for unthinking obedience. Tyrants are both lazy and cheaters. They will use whatever means available to entrap communities and make people feel they have nowhere to run. They want people to be quiet and complicit. Mindless obedience only leads to and propagates a tyrannical system.

People must speak out against oppressive leadership. If someone wants your loyalty, you must look at that person’s leadership to determine if that person is worthy of your loyalty. Those who are lazy and think it is acceptable to hurt others for their own gain will only destroy the system they are in. Those who are industrious and try to care for the people around them will ultimately build a better system.

Tyrants will use religion to justify burdening people with undeserved problems. They will restrict people’s access to the solutions to those problems. They will misinform people and con them into believing lies. They try to make you believe they will help you when they only intend to hurt you.


People who truly believe in the goodness of religion will form coalitions of concerned people and oppose tyrants, speak out against them and push them out of power. Faith means believing that what happens is somehow for the greater good. That kind of belief requires clear-thinking, independent, informed assessment of the qualities of the leader. Faith should not be freely given. It should be earned.

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