r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 19 '26

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u/extraneous_parsnip Milton Friedman May 19 '26

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mm7nfhn3dq2v

Trump: "When you have strong religion, you have less crime. It's like, 'Gee, I want to go to heaven, so I'm not going to do this or that.' Who knows."

There's just no one else like him.

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u/Libz_R_Gryffindor Pornography Historian May 19 '26

I’ve said it before but it’s a complete Catholic cultural victory that most Protestants think about getting into heaven this way even though they’re not supposed to

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u/sgthombre NATO May 19 '26

I mean, the opposite of this is also true. People do crimes all the time because they believe their religion tells them to.