🔥 The Religion of Power: Why Trump’s Violence, Elon’s Fantasies, and America’s Rising Male Fundamentalism Are All the Same Wound 🔥
By Sylvie Imelda Shene
November 2025
Introduction
The human ocean never stops revealing itself. Every wave carries the same ancient wound: the frightened child who grows up without love, with no one to witness his suffering, and learns to survive by controlling others. Whether it’s a 21-year-old clinging to Jesus, a tech mogul selling salvation through machines, or a president calling for the execution of elected officials — the pattern is identical. Repression becomes religion, religion becomes politics, and politics becomes violence.
When a President Calls for Death, He Tells Us His Childhood Story
It should chill any awake person to the bone:
Trump publicly declared that Democratic veterans should face the death penalty
for telling service members they can refuse illegal orders.
This is not political rhetoric.
This is a reenactment.
This is the unhealed child, humiliated long ago, reenacting his early terror on the world:
Obey me or die.
Submit or be punished.
My authority is the law.
It is the exact dynamic Alice Miller exposed decades ago:
“The immediate expression of the child’s anger is suppressed,
but at a later stage this suppressed fury will be directed at innocent victims
with uninhibited savagery.”
When Trump calls for people to be executed, he is not thinking of the Constitution.
He is thinking of his father.
And he wants the whole country to feel the fear he felt as a child.
Why the 21-Year-Old Contractor Broke My Heart
Yesterday, I talked to a 21-year-old contractor helping remodel my office.
A sweet kid. Soft eyes. A mind still forming.
But already hijacked.
He started preaching Jesus.
He said, “He died for our sins,” proudly repeating the script he inherited, not an original thought of his own.
And I felt sad.
Yes, a 21-year-old brain is still developing.
But his emotional prison is already being constructed — brick by brick, verse by verse.
By 21, the walls are already high.
By 30, they turn to concrete.
By 40, they become a fortress.
Could he break free one day?
Possibly.
But few do.
Young men are turning to religion right now in record numbers — not because they found truth, but because they are terrified of their feelings and desperate for authority.
The New York Times reported it clearly:
Young men are now more religious than young women.
They want “leadership, clarity, and meaning.”
Translation:
They want someone to tell them who they are, what to do, and who to blame.
It’s not spirituality.
It’s dependency.
And religion offers something emotionally fragile men crave most:
Hierarchies where men sit above women.
I Saw the Lie at Five Years Old
I never fell for it.
I remember being five years old in my small village of Zoio, walking with my mother past the church.
The priest was outside, sitting in the sun like a king on display.
My mother looked at him with reverence — her eyes glowing like he was some holy being.
And even at five, I thought:
Can’t she see?
He pees and poops like everyone else.
I knew then that religion was an illusion manufactured by men for men.
It gave them a stage, a costume, and unquestioned authority.
It gave them control over women.
I rejected it immediately.
Not intellectually — instinctively.
My older sister wanted to teach me to crochet and cook — “so you can be a good wife one day.”
I told her:
“I don’t want to get married. I want to be free.”
I cut my hair short.
Played football with boys.
Dressed like them — not because I wanted to be a boy, but because boys had freedom.
My whole life, all I ever wanted was freedom.
And freedom is exactly what terrifies religious men the most.
Why Men Run to Religion While Women Run Away
Women have been waking up.
They’re leaving churches, temples, and mosques.
And men?
They’re rushing toward them.
Because religion gives men:
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Power
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Authority
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Rules that favor them
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A father figure to obey
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A structure to hide their fear
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A license to suppress women
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A place to escape their childhood pain
The pastor in Texas said:
“Young men are looking for leadership, clarity, and meaning.”
No.
They are looking for a father to replace the one who hurt them.
And the dangerous part is this:
Men who are emotionally repressed are far more vulnerable to authoritarianism.
Which brings us back to the circus.
Trump & The New Mayor of New York: The Clown Meets the Student
Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York — a self-described socialist — meets Trump.
They smile.
They praise each other.
They perform.
Trump loves winners.
He doesn't care about ideology.
He cares about dominance.
Someone joked online that Trump is trying to “make Zohran the new Bubba.”
And honestly?
Nothing surprises me anymore.
We are living inside an improv show performed by unhealed children in grown-up bodies.
A global circus where the emotionally blind applaud loudest.
And Elon — with his massive IQ and microscopic EQ — is right there in the front row, clapping and reposting propaganda:
“AI will make everyone wealthy.”
“Robots will solve inequality.”
These are delusions — the fantasies of a deeply repressed child who thinks technology can fix what emotional repression broke.
No machine can cure the human soul.
The Circus Is Not Entertainment — It’s a Warning
People think this is politics.
It’s not.
It is the collective reenactment of childhood trauma playing out through:
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Presidents
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Priests
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Billionaires
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Tech moguls
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Young men searching for fathers
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Countries searching for saviors
This is why:
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Trump calls for executions,
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Elon spreads fantasies of robot utopias,
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Young men flock to religion,
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And violence is rising across the world.
Not because humans want to be evil.
But because humans refuse to feel their childhood wounds.
As long as that remains true, dictators will rise, religions will flourish, and democracies will fall.
Conclusion: The Only Way Out Is Through Ourselves
When people asked Jesus how to be saved, he said:
“The kingdom is within you.”
And maybe that was the message all along — misunderstood, mistranslated, misused:
Not “go through me,”
but go through YOU.
Face your wounds.
Feel your pain.
Break your chains.
This is what I had to do.
This is what most never dare.
This is why we are here:
A country run by traumatized children,
guided by traumatized followers,
enabled by traumatized billionaires.
Until humanity has the courage to go inward,
the circus will continue.
And the tickets will always be free.
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