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If you use religion to choose your political party...

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If a person chooses their political party because it is the 'party of their religion'...

Will they make the same 'leaps of faith" that they do for religion, when believing what their party leaders tell them?

Will they ignore any evidence contrary to the writings of the party elders?  If some scientist proved Adam and Eve would have, by the Bible timeline, been monkeys, most religious people would immediately disregard the info and even argue against it.  The very thought of it, unraveling the foundation of the bible they follow, would make them angry and closed off to any possibility.  You could have a priest, the Pope, or Jesus himself telling him/her that Adam and Eve were primates, and they would refuse to believe it, as such a big part of their lives is based upon it.

For those who choose the party of their religion, would you ignore facts which may unravel the fundamentals of your political party?    Let's suppose a scientist came out with physics demonstrating the official story of 911 was false.  To believe it would, like religion, completely disassemble the fabric of the belief system you have woven.  You would have to believe the men you've trusted with your family, your money, and your life, have lied about murder of thousands of men just like you.  I bet you could hear 10, or 100, or even 100,000 scientists telling you the 'official story' was scientifically impossible, and you'd hear nothing of it.  I bet your local, state, or even national level politicians could call 911 an inside job, and you wouldn't even listen to them finish the sentence. 

Your future would be in doubt, and your past would be meaningless, if the firm (religion or political party) in which you've invested all your capital (time and support) suddenly went bankrupt.  You'd be a lonely old man who spent his life buying a lie.  Would it be easier for this man to ignore evidence if it meant he could enter his golden years with an intact lie, rather than to be aware of the truth and spend his years with the regret of wasted years and feelings of betrayl?

Might be easier to sleep with the lie than to lay awake with the truth.

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