Zone1 Why is it not politically correct to be critical of religions other than Christianity?

[Paradoxical#1]

# When Power Scripts Belief: From Russia Collusion to Ancient Prophets
Why I never believed the collusion narrative—and what that says about belief itself

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## Introduction

There was a moment—years ago—when the Russia collusion story first broke. And I remember feeling dumbfounded.
The narrative was improbable, illogical, and structurally flawed from the start. It didn’t add up. Not because I leaned one way politically, but because the mechanics of the claim itself violated basic reasoning.

I couldn’t understand how millions of people believed it.

But over time, I did begin to understand—**they didn’t just believe it. They needed to.
It resonated with tribal loyalty. With the deep desire to see their side as righteous, their leaders as infallible, their chieftains and oracles as incapable of deceit.

It was the same psychological coding humanity has carried since the beginning—believe the tribe or suffer exile.

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## The Modern Lie: Russia Collusion as Manufactured Truth

Recent revelations from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have exposed what many now call a “treasonous conspiracy”—a coordinated effort by top Obama-era officials to fabricate intelligence suggesting Donald Trump colluded with Russia.

The alleged players:

• President Obama
• CIA Director John Brennan
• FBI Director James Comey
• Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
• Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Declassified documents reportedly show that the intelligence community had no credible evidence of Russian collusion before the narrative was promoted. Yet it was fed to media outlets, repeated across cable news, and embedded in the public psyche through endless headlines and outraged commentary.

It became truth by repetition.
Not because the evidence supported it, but because the system demanded it.

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## Ancient Parallels: Belief Without Inquiry

Now, consider this:
If modern, educated citizens can be convinced—through emotion, repetition, and institutional trust—to believe a fabricated narrative…

What does that say about ancient populations, ruled by spiritual authority, under threat of banishment or death, with no access to education or alternative views?

The mechanisms were the same:

• Belief as survival
• Obedience to the elder, priest, king, or prophet
• Stories accepted without inquiry, because inquiry was punishment

Those in flowing robes controlled minds through mystique and consequence. Those in suits do the same through algorithms and media saturation.

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## The Root of Belief: Tribalism and Fear

At the heart of all unexamined belief lies a tribal reflex:

“My side must be right. My elders wouldn’t lie. My identity depends on this.”

When tribalism replaces truth, reason becomes irrelevant.
That’s what I witnessed during the collusion era.
Not a triumph of facts—but a ritual of social cohesion disguised as news.

And the most unsettling truth?
Even when the evidence collapsed, many held firm—not because they hadn’t read the reports, but because letting go meant admitting they’d been misled.

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## The Question That Cuts Across Time

If belief can be manufactured today,
how certain are we that ancient beliefs weren’t manufactured with equal precision—but fewer eyes watching?

We question today's propaganda machines.
But too often, we treat historical belief systems as sacred, untouchable, or divinely endorsed.

This blog asks:
What if many of them weren’t revelations… but reputations, forged by power?

Because questioning isn’t rebellion.
It’s reality’s last defense.

And belief isn’t sacred—unless it survives scrutiny.

 

[Votto]

That’s debatable. And “the left” isn’t a religion, which is what I was talking about and thought you were referring to.

Ok, cult

I suppose you sidestep the religion label because you don't believe in a God.

Whatever.

 

[Votto]

It is impossible for me to lay out my beliefs in just a post or two. That you said, "Paradoxical seems to be a Trump supporter but continues to be blinded by Left wing propaganda that Christianity is the biggest threat to US politics in terms of power and influence. Very telling" is what is telling. That is because as a Trump supporter and staunch conservative, you and many of your tribal members (Christians) think that I automatically should be a Christian because that is expected. In this regard, your use of the words "Very telling" is an automatic-ingrained response used by your elders in the past to make people conform to THEIR belief systems and because of that you inherited those genes or memes (memories). The slur is a way to keep tribal purity and a reminder to any other Christian that starts questioning their Christian beliefs to not dare do that lest the tribe would scorn and deride them.

That is why I brought up Iran. If you were born there, you would have been taught that Islam is the way and the truth and the light and anytime you dared stray from the beliefs passed down over the centuries as being sent by Allah himself you would be reprimanded by your elders and that would have become an ingrained belief in you to where you would do the same in adulthood by telling someone who is a Muslim that it is "Very telling" if he asserted that he doesn't believe women should be made to wear burkas. Beliefs are with us because of tribal conditioning. Just for you and other Christians, my next post will be a blog I wrote today on this topic.

That is not it at all. If you read what I posted, I also mentioned how many churches have leaned Left as well.

For example, I hear none of them talk about the gender cult being preached at their local public schools, even though gender confusion is up some 4000%. Not one sermon have I heard touching any of it in many churches even though society in on fire with this stuff. Why? Because they either secretly agree with it or are scared to death of it, so they don't take a position on it.

Either way, the Left wins.

Children in the US have been indoctrinated by the Left like those in Iran have been with their glorious supreme leader.



The Left has begun their list of martyrs as well, starting with the dude that tried to assassinate Trump and the dude the murdered a health care CEO. And don't forget about their martyr that tried to assassinate Kavanaugh and the entire GOP Congress at a charity baseball game in Virginia. The Left is just getting warmed up.

By far Leftism has become the world's most dominate religion, which is why Islam has even begun to line up with them as well. They scream that their political opponents are all Hitler and sit back and wait for one of their loons, which are a dime a dozen, to show up with a gun to off them as they wash their hands of all culpability.

Christianity is as big a threat to the United States as white supremacy is, which is none at all. I suppose if white supremacists were as many as those claiming to be Christians, you might have a problem, but no.

 

[Votto]

# When Power Scripts Belief: From Russia Collusion to Ancient Prophets
Why I never believed the collusion narrative—and what that says about belief itself

---

## Introduction

There was a moment—years ago—when the Russia collusion story first broke. And I remember feeling dumbfounded.
The narrative was improbable, illogical, and structurally flawed from the start. It didn’t add up. Not because I leaned one way politically, but because the mechanics of the claim itself violated basic reasoning.

I couldn’t understand how millions of people believed it.

But over time, I did begin to understand—**they didn’t just believe it. They needed to.
It resonated with tribal loyalty. With the deep desire to see their side as righteous, their leaders as infallible, their chieftains and oracles as incapable of deceit.

It was the same psychological coding humanity has carried since the beginning—believe the tribe or suffer exile.

---

## The Modern Lie: Russia Collusion as Manufactured Truth

Recent revelations from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have exposed what many now call a “treasonous conspiracy”—a coordinated effort by top Obama-era officials to fabricate intelligence suggesting Donald Trump colluded with Russia.

The alleged players:

• President Obama
• CIA Director John Brennan
• FBI Director James Comey
• Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
• Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Declassified documents reportedly show that the intelligence community had no credible evidence of Russian collusion before the narrative was promoted. Yet it was fed to media outlets, repeated across cable news, and embedded in the public psyche through endless headlines and outraged commentary.

It became truth by repetition.
Not because the evidence supported it, but because the system demanded it.

---

## Ancient Parallels: Belief Without Inquiry

Now, consider this:
If modern, educated citizens can be convinced—through emotion, repetition, and institutional trust—to believe a fabricated narrative…

What does that say about ancient populations, ruled by spiritual authority, under threat of banishment or death, with no access to education or alternative views?

The mechanisms were the same:

• Belief as survival
• Obedience to the elder, priest, king, or prophet
• Stories accepted without inquiry, because inquiry was punishment

Those in flowing robes controlled minds through mystique and consequence. Those in suits do the same through algorithms and media saturation.

---

## The Root of Belief: Tribalism and Fear

At the heart of all unexamined belief lies a tribal reflex:


When tribalism replaces truth, reason becomes irrelevant.
That’s what I witnessed during the collusion era.
Not a triumph of facts—but a ritual of social cohesion disguised as news.

And the most unsettling truth?
Even when the evidence collapsed, many held firm—not because they hadn’t read the reports, but because letting go meant admitting they’d been misled.

---

## The Question That Cuts Across Time



We question today's propaganda machines.
But too often, we treat historical belief systems as sacred, untouchable, or divinely endorsed.

This blog asks:
What if many of them weren’t revelations… but reputations, forged by power?

Because questioning isn’t rebellion.
It’s reality’s last defense.

And belief isn’t sacred—unless it survives scrutiny.

Like it or not, the Left is synonymous with atheism as conservatives are with being Christian. That is not to say you might not have some Christians vote D or some atheists like yourself vote R, but know you are an exception to that rule.

Have you ever considered why that is?

 

[XponentialChaos]

Ok, cult

I suppose you sidestep the religion label because you don't believe in a God.

Whatever.

I was addressing your OP. I didn’t notice that it was posted several months ago, which is my fault. But in that post, you’re clearly discussing actual religions, which is why I addressed that.

If you want to include “the left”, then “the right” can also be included. Your claim that “the left” has more propaganda power over the others is highly debatable and can easily also be said about “the right”. This doesn’t seem like the point of what you were trying to make this OP about, but hey, it’s your topic.

To answer your question, no I don’t believe in a god.

 

[Votto]

I was addressing your OP. I didn’t notice that it was posted several months ago, which is my fault. But in that post, you’re clearly discussing actual religions, which is why I addressed that.

If you want to include “the left”, then “the right” can also be included. Your claim that “the left” has more propaganda power over the others is highly debatable and can easily also be said about “the right”. This doesn’t seem like the point of what you were trying to make this OP about, but hey, it’s your topic.

To answer your question, no I don’t believe in a god.

It is not highly debatable, it's a fact

If you look at any peer reviewed literature it will show you that the Left has owned both academia and the media in large part, as it only gets worse every year.

Conversely, both academia and the media distance themselves from Christianity, yet I am supposed to be convinced that Christians are on the verge of creating a theocracy?

Um.............no.

As for you not believing in a God, that was just an educational guess

Why do you think those who vote R are mostly Christian vs those that vote D are mostly atheists/agonistics?

 

[XponentialChaos]

It is not highly debatable.

If you look at any peer reviewed literature it will show you that the Left has owned both academia and the media in large part, as it only gets worse every year.

Persecution complex. The deck is always stacked against you and it’s unfair.

Except Republicans control all three branches of government and Christianity is the biggest religion in the country.

 

[Votto]

Persecution complex. The deck is always stacked against you and it’s unfair.

Except Republicans control all three branches of government and Christianity is the biggest religion in the country.

Really? A persecution complex because the deck is stacked against me?

I hear this the most from the Left, not the right.

And you are correct, the GOP owns all 3 branches of government, yet they pass crazy spending bills, so that in no way means they are conservatives. And even though they did away with Roe vs. Wade, abortion numbers are up. In fact, at least Roe provided some regulations against abortion in terms of fetal development, but now that the Left has passed state constitutional amendment after state constitutional amendment, these regulations have been stripped making any and all abortions legal without state supervision, and the GOP says nothing. All they would have to do is offer another constitutional state amendment to return the Roe regulations to at least prevent things like partial birtha abortion, but they do nothing.

Funny that.

In fact, I don't view Trump as a Christian either because I once heard him say he has never felt the need to ask God for forgiveness, that and he has never stepped foot in a church. Yea, that's not Christianity.

Yet Trump knows that he is toast without the support of Christians making once again strange bed fellows.

As a Christian, you must understand that Christ preached that his kingdom was not of this world. When he performed the miracle with the loaves of bread and fish to feed the people, they wanted to make him their earthly king, but he evaded them, much to the chagrin of his disciples. And when Pilate confronted Jesus and asked him if he was a king, again, he said yes but that his kingdom was not of this world even though his kingdom had come to the world through him. He told him that if his kingdom were of this world, his disciples would take up arms to free him and make him king by force.

As a result, I never expect any worldly government to be "Christian", even if they proclaim themselves to be.

At the same time, Christians can still have influence within society to try and make it as civil as humanly possible, which I assume you do as well in via your belief system.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Like it or not, the Left is synonymous with atheism as conservatives are with being Christian. That is not to say you might not have some Christians vote D or some atheists like yourself vote R, but know you are an exception to that rule.

Have you ever considered why that is?

It is because it didn't add up. There were way too many flags. The biggest I think is that it takes a belief to get people into heaven and a non belief gets you eternal torture or exclusion from "God" depending on what denomination your parents were in because people almost always believe as did their parents. For a being who could create an entire universe to have the identical emotions as humans and punish or reward people for the way they believe smacked to me as being coercion by those in power who gained money and influence by virtue of the number of followers. When you look at politics it is the same MO. Politicians gain power, money, acclaim and adulation based on attracting more believers.

This is the way the world is set up Votto, as painful or wrong as that may seem to you. Humans want adulation....not God.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Really? A persecution complex because the deck is stacked against me?

I hear this the most from the Left, not the right.

And you are correct, the GOP owns all 3 branches of government, yet they pass crazy spending bills, so that in no way means they are conservatives.

In fact, I don't view Trump as a Christian because I once heard him say he has never felt the need to ask God for forgiveness, that and he has never stepped foot in a church.

Yet Trump knows that he is toast without the support of Christians.

When you control all three branches of government and Christians are directly responsible for who the leader of the free world is, I would argue that it’s at least debatable who has the most propaganda power. LoL.

Looks like a persecution complex to me.

 

[Votto]

When you control all three branches of government and Christians are directly responsible for who the leader of the free world is, I would argue that it’s at least debatable who has the most propaganda power. LoL.

Looks like a persecution complex to me.

Again, look at peer reviewed articles about how the Left has dominated both the media and academia. This is the main way propaganda is spread.

How would one even know what the 3 branches are doing or saying without their help?

Hmm?

In fact, Trump, during his last administration, was censored on Twitter and could not talk to the nation. Imagine, a sitting President of the United States unable to communicate with those that elected him other than what the media wants to tell you about him, like him being Hitler.

Is that not nuts or what?

Then, this last time around, a judge put a gag order on him as he was fighting to win the nomination of his own party for becoming President.

WTH?

in fact, about 20% of voters said that had they had known about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, they would not have voted for Biden.

Social media was told it was all Russian disinformation, which ended up being Biden misinformation, so they censored it from being talked about.

The DNC rigs elections like a fisherman rigs a lure on the end of his line.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Again, look at peer reviewed articles about how the Left has dominated both the media and academia. This is the main way propaganda is spread.

How would one even know what the 3 branches are doing or saying without their help?

Hmm?

In fact, Trump, during his last administration, was censored on Twitter and could not talk to the nation. Imagine, a sitting President of the United States unable to communicate with those that elected him other than what the media wants to tell you about him, like him being Hitler.

Is that not nuts or what?

Then, this last time around, a judge put a gag order on him as he was fighting to win the nomination of his own party for becoming President.

WTH?

There are many ways propaganda is spread, including right-wing media and church.

Trump was kicked off Twitter for posting lies about the election being stolen. He convinced a bunch of people, with no evidence whatsoever, that the election was stolen. He was finally kicked off Twitter for throwing gasoline on a fire that he started that lead to complete chaos, including deaths, police being attacked, and multiple arrests.

And what was the result of this insane behavior? Despite all of that insanity, he won the next election and you guys took control of all three branches of government. And you want to say that we’re the ones with the most propaganda power?

Yea, I disagree. And like I said, that’s highly debatable.

 

[Foxfyre]

That is not it at all. If you read what I posted, I also mentioned how many churches have leaned Left as well.

For example, I hear none of them talk about the gender cult being preached at their local public schools, even though gender confusion is up some 4000%. Not one sermon have I heard touching any of it in many churches even though society in on fire with this stuff. Why? Because they either secretly agree with it or are scared to death of it, so they don't take a position on it.

Either way, the Left wins.

Children in the US have been indoctrinated by the Left like those in Iran have been with their glorious supreme leader.



The Left has begun their list of martyrs as well, starting with the dude that tried to assassinate Trump and the dude the murdered a health care CEO. And don't forget about their martyr that tried to assassinate Kavanaugh and the entire GOP Congress at a charity baseball game in Virginia. The Left is just getting warmed up.

By far Leftism has become the world's most dominate religion, which is why Islam has even begun to line up with them as well. They scream that their political opponents are all Hitler and sit back and wait for one of their loons, which are a dime a dozen, to show up with a gun to off them as they wash their hands of all culpability.

Christianity is as big a threat to the United States as white supremacy is, which is none at all. I suppose if white supremacists were as many as those claiming to be Christians, you might have a problem, but no.

If you want to get technical in Christian belief, if the Church--Church is defined as the sum total of all those embracing the Christian faith--if the church goes, so does the Holy Spirit. And all that remains is the worst of humankind and the worst that it can and will do.

The threat is the push to eliminate Christianity and the goal there is to remove the last barrier to achieving totalitarian control over all the people.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Again, look at peer reviewed articles about how the Left has dominated both the media and academia. This is the main way propaganda is spread.

How would one even know what the 3 branches are doing or saying without their help?

Hmm?

In fact, Trump, during his last administration, was censored on Twitter and could not talk to the nation. Imagine, a sitting President of the United States unable to communicate with those that elected him other than what the media wants to tell you about him, like him being Hitler.

Is that not nuts or what?

Then, this last time around, a judge put a gag order on him as he was fighting to win the nomination of his own party for becoming President.

WTH?

in fact, about 20% of voters said that had they had known about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, they would not have voted for Biden.

Social media was told it was all Russian disinformation, which ended up being Biden misinformation, so they censored it from being talked about.

The DNC rigs elections like a fisherman rigs a lure on the end of his line.

The left uses the identical tactics that Christians do to win and keep converts. The number one method is fear. Look for that daily from the politicians and media anchors. Then guilt. As examples, guilt over not feeding the hungry or housing the poor or better schooling, health care.

Dependency on government, which is just a twist on dependency on some unseen God.

Savior mentality. Instead of Jesus, government is the savior of humanity.

 

[Votto]

The left uses the identical tactics that Christians do to win and keep converts. The number one method is fear. Look for that daily from the politicians and media anchors. Then guilt. As examples, guilt over not feeding the hungry or housing the poor or better schooling, health care.

Dependency on government, which is just a twist on dependency on some unseen God.

Savior mentality. Instead of Jesus, government is the savior of humanity.

Again, fear is not a bad thing, and neither is guilt.

What is bad is when you are afraid of what you should not be and guilty of what you should not be.

After all, you should be afraid to stick your head under a running lawn mower and guilty for running over someone's head with the same running lawnmower.

Or do you disagree?

But what the Left has done it try to make people deathly afraid of Hitler taking power, which is and was an outright lie.

As for government being the savior of humanity, that would either be the Left or the Trump cult.

Again, people form cults out of pretty much anything and everything, assuming they look to other things than God for your salvation.

For example, the Left wants us to believe we need to look to them to save us from global warming by controlling the air when they can't even control inflation.

 

[sealybobo]

I believe Christianity is no better or worse than any other religion. What I have an issue with is when someone confuses an Islamic culture with Islam itself. They generally compare the worst of Islamic actions with the best of Christian actions.

Depends on the leader. When you have evil Pope then you have an evil Catholic religion that covers up for pedophiles.

And when you are led by a Pastor like Donald Trump and you cut off USAID and millions die?

Or you are the leader of Israel and you commit genocide against Arabs. How good is Judaoism?

 

[BreezeWood]

The threat is the push to eliminate Christianity and the goal there is to remove the last barrier to achieving totalitarian control over all the people.

liar ...

4th century christianity is a monarchical religion as totalitarian as possible - servitude to worship and denial to a solitary figure.

monotheism as taught by jesus is equality for all in the heavens.

 

[Foxfyre]

liar ...

4th century christianity is a monarchical religion as totalitarian as possible - servitude to worship and denial to a solitary figure.

monotheism as taught by jesus is equality for all in the heavens.

In case you haven't noticed, we live in the 21st Century, not in the 4th Century. And we didn't live in heavens in the 4th Century and don't live there now but we are subject to rules, regulations, laws established by humankind here on Planet Earth.

 

[BreezeWood]

In case you haven't noticed, we live in the 21st Century, not in the 4th Century. And we didn't live in heavens in the 4th Century and don't live there now but we are subject to rules, regulations, laws established by humankind here on Planet Earth.

The threat is the push to eliminate Christianity and the goal there is to remove the last barrier to achieving totalitarian control over all the people.

no religion is more totalitarian than christianity, the desert religions and their bibles of forgeries and fallacies used to persecute and victimize the innocent from their beginnings to the present day.

 

[Foxfyre]

no religion is more totalitarian than christianity, the desert religions and their bibles of forgeries and fallacies used to persecute and victimize the innocent from their beginnings to the present day.

Well that's been your position it seems however prejudicial/bigoted that is. Have a pleasant rest of your day.