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(...you know...kind of a whole "control mechanism" sort'a thing)


You've hit the nail on the head Dwight,all religions as we know them today were set up and supported by the ruling or upper class to keep the peasants under control.

They instilled in the peasants that the "next life" would be better and that the more they suffered in this life the better the next life would be.

Of course and they wrote the laws to benefit themselves. But that is kind of a different bend on this subject however it is the one that sticks in my craw the most how religion has been used forever. Whether it is blowing up people because they want to determine their own destiny or warping the truths to brainwash the masses it is hypocracy any way you look at it.


Yeah, Christianity was brought on by the upper ruling class. That's why Jesus said he didn't come to fix the righteous. It's why He said the meek and poor will inherit the earth. That's why He was born in a smelly manger or cave and the lowest class, the shepherds, were allowed to witness it firsthand. A ruling class would never allow themselves to be upstaged. And they didn't. Jesus did say, "I come not to bring peace, but a sword" and sho nuff, we gots us some swordin'! Would any of you die for a lie? The apostles only had to recant to save their skins. Yet not one did. And they died horrible deaths. All they had to do was, well, lie. But they didn't. And they paid for it with their lives. If Jesus is saving the lives of those dying by suicide, addiction, depression, etc., is that control or brainwashing? Hitler, Stalin, and Mohammed forcibly controlled and brainwashed. They were upper ruling class.

I am not criticizing the original concepts just those that bend them to suite their own needs and that goes for most religions. God didn't say drop tons of bombs on innocent victoms so the rules were bent to justify it. Or Alla didn't say take down the twin towers but the rules were bent to justify the act. Governments love to stand on a soapbox and espouse their particular religious bent but in the back room are sceeming how to screw the very people they were just addressing backed by the money people who write the laws.