Isn't it easier to lie cheat and steal without worrying that Christ is watching? Isn't that the reason we are being moved away from a republic and to a socialist/collective nation? To rid us of morality and show us we are the sheep after all? Isn't it easier to control animals than beings who are free thinking and who have a sense of morality and function in a civilized and principled manner within society? Keep the sheep 'happy', feed them from the public trough, and they will respond by lapping the hand that feeds them. House them in boxes, educate them to serve the state and they are no longer much different than sheep in pens. The state becomes the new god...for sheep only need material basics...and the state will offer to provide...and the state works for the bank.