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Popular Sovereignty In Religion

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The concept of popular sovereignty is an idea based on the assumption that a few people are empowered to act on behalf of everyone else and this same idea is reflected in religion. A person may say that he has been empowered to communicate the wishes of the gods, or that indeed he is a god. Like the concept of popular sovereignty, religion requires the suspension of disbelief. If we take the example of Baba ram Rahim Singh ji insan who is a self-styled god man, People believed in him because hey suspended their disbelief as he made them believe that fiction stated by him was reality. How close that fiction comes to what is believed to be reality gives its validation. When reality no longer validates the fiction, it becomes exposed to its own
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