The root of evil in this world is not any religious faith: the morals of Islam, the Jews, the Protestants, the Catholics all emphasize that the individual should rise above selfish egotism ( love ) .

 But -and here is the contradiction- none of great religions openly condemn the centuries old economic system of capitalism - based on selfish private property rights and the circumscribed " I ". And TV evangelists ( mostly Protestant ) preach the Gospel of Prosperity with half-cracked enthusiasm .

Just a few years ago so many prominent Republican politicians were openly devoted to Ayn Rand thought. Rand wrote the right wing classic " The Virtue of Selfishness ". She was a militant atheist and an extreme Zionist.

 And the Democratic Party - besotted with " identity politics " - now seems embarrassed by God's pernicious presence  in the hearts of working class " deplorable " Americans.

Democratic socialists do not make rude attacks on any religion. They teach that there is nothing fixed about human society and the economic order -or disorder- of capitalism. God is more likely to be more eternal than private property rights. When I was a kid I heard that " God owned the world ". That left out the likes of Donald Trump -and the American plutocracy.