Faith in God and faith in government substitute for each other
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- Trust in government is not a major working factor in modern society (similarity 0.83)
- Distrust of government is easier to ground rationally than trust (similarity 0.83)
- Revolutionary regimes attract blind faith, not grounded trust (similarity 0.82)
- Priming thoughts of God makes believers favor their own religious group (similarity 0.81)
- Gods and governments serve interchangeable functions of surveillance, comfort, and control (similarity 0.81)
- Ungrounded faith in government benefits the powerful, not the faithful (similarity 0.80)
- Faith historically replaced belief as strongest trust word (similarity 0.80)
- Cohesion and trust check government power, not merely establish social order (similarity 0.80)
- Even self-professed believers intuit God as mainly monitoring negative moral acts (similarity 0.80)
- Trust in rulers is a realistic assessment of irreversibility, not psychic compulsion (similarity 0.79)
- Prosocial religious cohesion inherently requires excluding nonbelievers from trust (similarity 0.79)
- Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. (similarity 0.78)
- Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.78)