Belief and crime
Religious superstition
“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” Thomas Paine - AGE OF REASON, pt. 1.
But if he is so far corrupted, he has no belief other than those that substantiate his corrupted ways. Contemporaneous politicos.
And so sad that a huge number in our current count of politicians are denying reality. What is coming?