Mainly, because no matter what the denomination or country of origin, no matter how often or how easily or how widely a particular specie of faith is being passed about, sooner or later people begin to fall sleep to anything less than fear or threats. Love is grand. Sex is lubricious.
But, every lesser preacher, politician and bambastidillion finds out fear is where the money is. Else, heorshe moves along to a rewarding career in the latest reality TV little leagues, home videos, or street cell phone rollems. Instead of cool, clear water, our dear leaders whip it out and whip it up. Not to be out done, their surrogates, the media - in former time John Peter Zengerlike Serious, Hunter S. Thompson Yellow, Muckraking Investigators of the Golden Age of Urinalism - raise a howl when they catch a sniff of Intercontinental Ballistic Hilton Hydraheaded genitalia.
