Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

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It can be partly because of religion, but it could also be prevented partly by religion.
 
It all depends on who a religious person receives their morality from. If they receive their morals from their religious leader who is kind toward everybody, they will personally have kind morals. The same applies if their religious leader is hateful; they will develop hateful ways of looking at the world. However, many strongly religious people make their own interpretations of what is right, and put themselves near like-minded people with the same interpretations that they have.
 
Religions are a way of (sometimes manipulatively) passing down ideas. Both good and bad ideas can be passed down, and with a world much more open to large-scale traveling than before, people are not as susceptible to having ideas forced upon them. If somebody does not like what they are being religiously taught, they can find a new place of worship, or they can find a new location altogether.
 
TL;DR: Religions can spread both good and bad ideas, and they are not as likely to gain absolute followers now because different cultures are more accessible.
 
And a lot of it is just hatred within a culture that is exposed through religion. The hatred would still be there without the religion.
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Thing is, you don’t need religion for morals, good or bad.  
Some people act like morals were created by religion but that’s completely false.
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Be careful; somebody could say the same thing about the other side, and believe that they are just as correct as you are:  
Don’t you love it when these some of these brainless Trump Obama supporters and conservatives liberals get mad at these people for parodying the Trumps Obamas.
@Mikey  
This is entirely true, but many religious people get their morals from what they worship. Regardless of whether somebody thought of what is right and wrong by yourself or through a religion, it is still a moral.
 
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Nice quote.
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So would you, if you were in a more conservative conversation.
 
I am just saying that it is a better idea to look more at the principles about why you have these opinions, rather than to just have them. Although those people that you described may be conservative, they likely have the same opinions about the other end of the political spectrum that you do.
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Well, if the conservative in question is a civil and rational enough, then I can tone my attitude down. Sure my emotions can get the better of me, but understand… I’m a human, not a robot.
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You sound young and proud, which brings me a few painful memories. Hopefully you’ll grow out of it and understand that everyone must assume responsibility of their actions.
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It can be partly because of religion, but it could also be prevented partly by religion.
It all depends on who a religious person receives their morality from. If they receive their morals from their religious leader who is kind toward everybody, they will personally have kind morals. The same applies if their religious leader is hateful; they will develop hateful ways of looking at the world. However, many strongly religious people make their own interpretations of what is right, and put themselves near like-minded people with the same interpretations that they have.
Religions are a way of (sometimes manipulatively) passing down ideas. Both good and bad ideas can be passed down, and with a world much more open to large-scale traveling than before, people are not as susceptible to having ideas forced upon them. If somebody does not like what they are being religiously taught, they can find a new place of worship, or they can find a new location altogether.
 
Fred Phelps and the WBC being the poster child of that (glad he’s dead, though his brainwashed followers continue).
 
Then look at others like Jim Jones, David Koresh, and Tony Alamo. No other collective has more cases of brainwashing than religion.
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@Mikey  
Far that be from me!  
I merely give firm advice,  
the kind that makes youngsters wise,  
not as one proclaiming his might,  
but as one that seeks to do right.  
I am glad to have folks nearby straighten my ways,  
for were they not around I might have gone astray!
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Communism has nothing to do with brainwashing. It is a system where everything is [supposed to be] rationed by the government so that everybody has equal possessions, not a system where the government forces you to like the country. Things involving brainwashing, like government censorship, are not exclusive to communist societies.
 
Is communism bad?
 
Well, I would say so. I would also say that pure capitalism is bad, too. People need to have things to work toward, but also need a socioeconomic safety net.
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@liquidsodanium  
If there’s one thing history has taught us, it’s that governments don’t exactly need encouragement to kill or persecute their people. Religion and ideology just make it easier for everyone to go along with it.
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Of course! After all, ordinary people couldn’t possibly had any with existing order of things and power and attack it, that’s simply impossible! Communists in Russia, China and Cuba just methodically brainwashed everyone all the while waging revolutions and civil wars against regime who are also baked by international powers.  
Just like how Freemasons cast a spell on people of France and forced them to destroy monarchy and aristocratic estate, and guillotined poor innocent Louis!
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Sometimes I miss my faith and the comfort it gave me. I haven’t found anything to fill that hole in my heart yet and I’ve been looking for 10 years.
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I get that feeling too, and it has been under four years for me. I used to be a standard protestant Christian, but I always had my doubts about religion. I held on to my belief until then because I was scared that I would go to hell if I accepted myself as nonreligious and was wrong.
 
There is a comfort in believing that death is not the end.
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