WE all admit that most Americans can be safely categorised as conservatives and religious , or at best religiously conservatives . Following most religious sects or different denominations , most or all answer to the same higher authority .
All these religious denominations without exception ask men to sacrifice themselves to a transcendent entity , such as the One , God , or the state whether religious or civil . The good life , therefore , consists for the groups and individuals alike ; for each man's renunciation of personal , worldly desires in order to serve a higher truth , and a better community here on earth .
Religious leaders , thinkers and congregations are often described as advocates and proponents of faith over reason , and thus as non or anti rationalists .
The American people , in good numbers , nowadays are turning and more so than ever before , as anti establishment and/or anti government and higher organising bodies in their lives , with more evident disrespect toward leaders of any kind .
In trying to relate the one and the many , it seems that our solution is to write off the many as unwanted , undesirable and unreal , and interpret literally the one as a self-sufficiency , championing the one without the many .
So as Americans, represented by tea partiers and ultra conservative write wingers , are we turning away from religious substance and core principles ? are we reinventing new social/religious dogmas or a new creed to suit our modern selfish temperaments .
Simply some observations from our times, thanks for your time .
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