In politics and religion are we manipulated by fantasy more than persuaded by realities?

Question

A friend spent much of her Church-school childhood in terror of getting another log on the fire of Hell. Now we're alarmed about terrorists who kill far fewer people than die on the roads - while our politicians avoid laws that would inconvenience motorists or upset car makers, and declare we must protect the economy while avoiding actions that might prevent climate change that threatens life on Earth. What price homo sapiens?

Answer 1

In the US now it's very difficult to focus on realities, because we are getting very few of them through sources like "the news" these days. They have bound up up and immobilized us by a culture of fear and hopelessness (based on very few realities), so now we are suffering from a case of deep pervasive depression. We have tried to gve away our freedoms to get some theoretical security from a non-existant threat or one that is much less than advertised by the powers that be. Most of us are immobilized by the depression and hopelessness of it all, as well as the incredible amount of self-deception we have allowed ourselves to harbor.

Answer 2

What realities? When was the last time we got the truth from anyone in this anarchism? Journalists admit they're censored. Scientists are censored. Dirty little secrets are buried or destroyed.
What is MOST, (not all) religion made of but fantasy?

Answer 3

Perhaps it is the positive notion that people are persuaded by the actions of other 'passionate' humans than by the mere carelessness or incompetence that form our machines and their accidents, i.e. it is easier to be angered of a murder than death in car accident, especially if its due to weather conditions. But the bourgeois we may suspect of thinking the proletariat as cannon fodder or drunk driver.

Answer 4

Preachers and politicians do the same things. They take our money (tithe/tax) and tell us what to do (laws/commandments). They both create an air of fear in which to manipulate their followers with those fantasies.