Why Protestants, Sunnis, Hindu's and Buddhist Are Basically the Liberals of Religion
There’s a pattern most people miss.
The more decentralized the faith, the easier it is for modern political power to shape and pull parts of it into its orbit.
The two most centralized faiths on Earth: Catholicism and Shia Islam.
They are the ones that most often push back against American power.
The Pope criticizes U.S. foreign policy.
Iran’s Supreme Leader stands in direct opposition.
Meanwhile, Protestants (especially evangelicals) and Sunni Muslims are far more tolerant and often actively supportive of America and Israel.
Why?
Because they’re decentralized.
Protestantism has no Pope.
Sunni Islam has no Supreme Leader.
There is no single authority who can speak for all of them.
When you remove the center, the faith naturally fractures into thousands of independent voices, churches, and movements.
And fractured groups are easy to shape.
Some of those voices became fiercely pro-Israel because they read the Bible literally.
Others became pro-American because Washington offers protection, money, or weapons.
Without a central figure to say “no,” American interests could gradually pull large parts of both groups into alignment.
Consider large parts of the Hindu community, especially the diaspora in America and the Hindu nationalist movement in India, have grown quite pro America and pro Israel.
There’s no central voice that can push back against those alignments.
This is the same mechanism we’re watching in politics and culture today.
Break the center whether it’s a church, a nation, or a shared identity and the pieces become much easier to steer.
Centralized power can resist.