The most intriguing pattern, however, is the 10% persistent gap between those who believe in heaven but not in hell. While the basic Biblical Illiteracy Gap concerns the divine hierarchy and stands removed from this world’s affairs, the Risk Parity Gap has a direct impact on how folks should conduct their lives. Its existence is an ultimate statement of conviction in unaccountability. In absolute terms, a steady 10% over two decades is a growing number of people. In 2000, this meant about 28mn, while in 2023, it was 34mn. This gap goes beyond basic biblical illiteracy. These are not religious-ignorant, but truly religious folks who agonize about the real state allocation in the afterlife. For them, this asymmetry means that there are only rewards and no accountability in the afterlife and so one can continue to sin with impunity. In other words, it is impossible to commit a sin for which one will have to atone, so why bother with guilt, morality, right, and wrong.
This gap is the ethics-free zone — religious suspension of the ethical at work, designed to inoculate against moral dilemmas – the lebensraum of hard-core libertarians who do as they please regardless of how it affects others, the ideological creed encoded as the unconditional pursuit of happiness.
The Risk Parity Gap captures the core of the basic flaw of the fundamental premises of the American.........
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