Dennis Prager has I think touched on some of the reasoning behind this. The state is in conflict with religion. Communism is a big state ideology that absolutely banished religion because it perceived it as a threat to state power. Leftists believe in using the state to create utopia on earth. Religious people believe the only true utopia happens in the afterlife and that we can never replicate it here.
Our founders said our rights were from God, not from the state. If they were given by the state, the state could take them away, but they can’t take away something given by God. Likewise, if we believe morality comes from the Bible, then we don’t accept the liberals making up a bunch of new moral codes that we are expected to follow like jailing people opposed to same-sex marriage, worshiping the earth, hating fossil fuels, etc.
Leftism itself is an ideology akin to religion. It has moral codes you have to accept, it judges and persecutes those who disagree, it asks you to have faith in the government to solve your problems for you. It is much easier to implant leftism in your malleable students if you first get their religion out of their head.
Indeed. Dennis Prager is correct, as he is about so many things. It’s odd though - that billionaires would subscribe to the communistic religion in the first place.
Liberal-tarians don’t believe religious ethics or morals belong in public life along with the atheists of the Left. They both persecute religious people who dare speak or act in the public square whenever possible.
The ones calling themselves “conservatives” these day are libertarians who part with the left when it comes to economic freedom totally unburdened by ethics. These are the GOP donors who hate normal American-American people but want unfettered global capitalism.