If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career.
A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.
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