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ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'
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I'm not sure whether you're joking or you're serious but lots of influential organizations around the world are deeply religious. My favorite example for this is the freemasons, which have a belief in some sort of god as one of the requirements to join them.
So, in practical terms, there's a 0% chance that "religion" will disqualify people from leadership positions in today's world. Come up with demands that can be more easily met. Such as not partaking in or supporting a genocide.
I'm sick of real peoples' needs (such as not getting genocided, for example, that's a big one) being ignored because elected/appointed/whatever officials of all kinds have this insane baked-in backdoor to override their reasoning abilities. Somebody's god's rules (as filtered through however many translations and re-tellings it took to reach them) should not be a factor in public policy any more than their favorite flavor of ice cream. It's fine to like that ice cream, maybe even vote on matters related to that flavor of ice cream if they can do it without giving their personal preferences undue weight compared to those of the people they're supposed to represent.
Stuff like this end-of-days apocalypse-seeking behavior in the article makes sense if someone's in their waning years and, as in some cases, are convinced that they're The Main Character of life. The usual orange turd-faucet and his Russian puppet-master come to mind too. Clearly it has to happen within their lifetime because otherwise what's the point so onward Christian soldiers or some shit. Don't need an environment where we're going either, hallelujah.
I do think that a person who relies on religious justification for their official acts in a leadership / law-making / influential position is unfit for their job* and should resign before they damage humanity any further. That goes doubly so if they're screwing over living-for-now people in favor of a dead apocalyptic "prophet" from 2000 years ago who liked to yell at fig trees and be wrong about mustard.
*Aside from in a theocracy since that's kinda their job by definition (but shouldn't be).