Why isn't religion working? especially christianity since it is the largest religion in the world?
If religions is so great, why does there seem to be more aggression than ever in the world?
It has to do with atheism, secularism and the Democrat party platform influenced by the far Left. Up till recently, these three worked as a team to successfully make the public messaging of the church, taboo, using legal separation of church and state arguments. The watering down of the public Christian influence on culture is one source of the problem, since it decline correlates with the rise of aggression.
For example, a nativity scene, was very common at City Hall during the Christmas season, say 50 years ago. It depicts a new born child and peaceful animals. it is a very peaceful scene. This was defined as evil, and in violation of atheist sensibilities; babies became evil. Before, this symbolism used to have a positive impact on people. It symbolized the Christmas spirit of love and giving, since a small child and calm domestic animals, both meant innocence. They bring out the natural need to take care of them; spirit of giving. These other groups now teach abortion rights or the right to kill that child before it is born. Which of the two is more self serving and aggressive?
Former President Trump, stood up for the legally oppressed religious people, who saw their positive influence bottlenecked with legalities and misinformation. Trump, by a new example, did not turn the other cheek to the bullies, but worked hard to restore the positive messaging of life and love. This push back made these other three groups even more aggressive and even more deceptive. The riots of 2020 showed who the aggressors were, while the messaging was based on misinformation; mostly peaceful and the looter are not criminals or you are a racist.
When I was became a teenager, I chose to became part of the hippie and love generation. This movement came from Christianity. It was not coincidence that the young men dressed up looking like Jesus with a rough beard and women dressed down; poor but with unique style. Does anyone remember the Christians lessons of blessed are the poor, humble and peace makers?
This peace and love movement was against war and embraced alternate religions; Eastern Religions; Ghandi and Buddha, as well as many religions of the indigenous people; Indians. Some of these religions used drugs to hear and see god. This openness to other religions and practices was the honey and glue that brought a wide range of people under the same flag; peace symbol.
As a teen I considered myself to be a Liberal who looked for positive social change; Civil Rights. The new Liberal movement has no grounding in peace or love. It is based on dividing people into niches. They work hard to undermine unity of man and then blame others for the negative outcomes. Civil Rights and the peace movement made racism on the decline. This was the case, until the new Liberals brought this evil back, to use racism and sexism like a tool to divide and leverage power.
In the USA, the most violate places to live, are in Democrat Party controlled cities. In Chicago alone, there were over 1000 deaths by guns in a place that has some of the strongest gun laws. The idea of force and law being able to control behavior, does not work by demonstration. But it is still be pushed by the people who screwed up their own cities and who are unable to learn from their mistakes.
The opposite was the case, back when I was young. The Democrats cities of the north and west became positive metropolitan areas with a diversity of peaceful young people, acted as one family. It was nice to migrate between sub-cultures and feel welcome, instead of suspicion. The question is what are the new Democrats teaching that fails to live up to its former glory? What do they now promote things that make its cities, very violent? Their divide and conquer strategy instead of unify, has had negative consequences for all. They set up new sides, which then polarizes into two divided sides.
Many of the young people who were part of the love and peace movement would grow up to become leaders in state, local and federal government. But many also became self serving "Hippie-crates", doing the opposite of what they had preached to others, in their youth. Some have even done things even worse than Nixon, such as use the power of Government to spy on citizens, in violation of law, that is not enforced due to legal corruption and manipulation.
Law has reached the end of its positive usefulness since those in power, either good and evil, can make law that reflects their own needs. We need more checks and balances on lawyers. Are you aware that in trials, lawyers do not have to swear to tell the truth? They can lie and deceive without consequences. Maybe this needs to change, so there are consequences. The current system favors corruption. Good lawyers will do the right thing by the law without force. Lawyers from the dark side need a push to do right.