Personal rantette on the usefulness of religion. [View all]
I've become more convinced today with Syria on our minds that religion is and always has been ultimately an instrument to give people a comfort that allows them to die in battle for their leader and church without worrying about death. To glamorize death, to have an eternally perfect unimaginable happy place to look forward to if they perform their services unto death for their leaders. Of course if they fail... well.... there's always HELL! And there's always that warm feeling you get when you know you have helped send your enemy to suffer eternal damnation. They are the bad ones you know.
It's still happening today even in the enlightened west. Sometimes more subtle... a different angle... but it's still the same.
Religion ruins an otherwise decent planet.
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