It's vital to note the driving force behind this: religious extremism. These people think they are chosen by God to rule over everyone else based on their personal interpretations of scripture.
These people are dangerous and their thirst for power has them willing to "win at any cost".
For all of those here who are of faith but "the good kind", not that even that level of participation helps justify their actions as "holy", and therefore legitimate.
The religious extremists are only about a quarter of the country. They do not have a majority able to enforce their will.
The fault lies not with "the good kind" of religious people, but with the non-religious people who ally with the extremists. And that includes a lot of the technical people in this forum. They are, broadly, techno-utopian extremists instead, and they reliably vote for the agenda of the religious extremists in hopes of furthering their own.
It's vital to note the driving force behind this: religious extremism. These people think they are chosen by God to rule over everyone else based on their personal interpretations of scripture.
These people are dangerous and their thirst for power has them willing to "win at any cost".
For all of those here who are of faith but "the good kind", not that even that level of participation helps justify their actions as "holy", and therefore legitimate.
The religious extremists are only about a quarter of the country. They do not have a majority able to enforce their will.
The fault lies not with "the good kind" of religious people, but with the non-religious people who ally with the extremists. And that includes a lot of the technical people in this forum. They are, broadly, techno-utopian extremists instead, and they reliably vote for the agenda of the religious extremists in hopes of furthering their own.