Religion tricks its supplicants into worshiping a fictional person called "God" and Jesus. So it should be as no surprise that Conservatives worship the fictional people of corporations. For there is perhaps no greater truth than that the vast majority of those who pray to the former for their "daily bread," only ever receive it from the latter. And it is not until they have grown tired of living on merely the crumbs of all those who, often without having to ever lift a finger or exert an ounce of effort, live so lavishly off of other people's labors, that it ever occurs to any of them that perhaps both sorts of fictional people are as evil as the devil himself.
Don't get me wrong- Jesus may have been a very real person, but the person that Christianity worships, other than it being based on that real person, is almost entirely fictional. And it is this habit of training people to believe in, and be completely dependent upon, fictional people, that religion conditions us to do from birth. No wonder we are so willing to put all of our trust in any other fictional people that happen to come along thereafter.
In essence, even though our parents tell us not to trust strangers, religions and economics teach us to trust the biggest, most self serving narcissistic "fictional" strangers there is or ever was, no matter how many wars they start for bogus reasons or how many children they happen to rape. Nor should such deeds ever be interpreted as the "fruit" of such fictional trees, the good Christian will assure you, since God can do no evil. Point out that God orders countless acts of evil in the old testament, and the Christian will assure you further that that all changed, after God sent Jesus to be murdered by humanity, in order to save our miserable hides of the hell we all so rightfully deserve.
Addicted to the worship of the profit motive no less than a belief in the benevolence of a "trickle down" economics, politicians worship the "fictional people" of corporations, like modern day pagan polytheists. That these same "Christians" have managed to turn the story of Lazarus and the Rich man into the moral ethos of an entire economic religion, and done so by convincing throngs of other Christians that the crumbs from the rich man's table amount to manna from heaven, and for such benevolence the starving Lazarus should be willing to worship and love that rich man as much he should love and worship God himself, is indeed a testament to the ability of religion to make the devil seem a saint when most he plays a sinner.
And since Lucifer was said to be the most brilliant of all the angels, one would expect nothing less.
Like the worship of God, so people who "believe" in the religion of capitalism (which is simply a species of the religion of economics, other species of which would include socialism and communism and others) first have to "believe" in the benevolence of corporations to provide us with both jobs, access to health care, potential retirement, and all the toys or services we would ever need; but only for a profit, of course. Like Jesus, in other words, the corporate person has the power to heal and forgive, to multiply fishes and loaves of bread, and to supply all who pray (work is prayer after all) their daily bread.
The "trickle down" economic theory, then, is based on the belief that by first rendering unto Caesar the lions share of gains made from the labors of the many, Caesar will shower down upon all those who toiled for his exuberant profits, manna from heaven, like the rich man provided the starving Lazarus with so many crumbs from his table. It assumes, in other words, that the rich man in the bible would gladly have paid Lazarus a fairer wage than mere crumbs, had Lazarus been willing to work for it, instead of simply being beggar.
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