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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
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Common people feel they need Religion, deriving comfort from promises that claim something better after this life is over – but doesn’t that in itself scream the obvious about Earth – that something’s very wrong when creatures of a world feel that another life must be better than this one – and does that not beg the question: “Why?” Rulers, of course, find many uses for Religion: it can control and it can move – and undesirables or subversives can be deemed to belong to an “illegal” religion so they can be eliminated - righteously. Religious elites – what hasn’t been said about them! – are the greatest salesmen of all. They excel at selling nothing... for a very high price! How big a church does it take to sell a shovelful of hope? Now come the wise ones – they don’t need Religion – (and for that matter neither do they play with politics or money but go their own way) knowing, oh so well, how foolish it is to hang onto the love of an absentee god or to think that some unknown place must be better than this one. |
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