Reply #72: Religions have been, are, and will be a method for social control

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They may co-opt worthy ideals, or humane concepts regarding morality. But they do so in order to aid religious leadership and their principal goal: control you.

There have been thousands of religious movements through history. Each with a different deity(s), a different moral code, a different set of mythological nonsense, historical basis, and traditions. Such diversity, in most cases highly contradictory, would lead most people to understand the false nature of religion due to it being based on complete lack of evidence. However, a funny thing happens when we dig deeper, and notice that one of the few "constants" among all this religious diversity is that one of the few things that most religions coincide in, is in having religious leaderships being the ones deciding and controlling what people should, have, or are allowed to do with their own lives. Funny that, eh?

If people were truly honest, we would frame religion under its only common trait: social control. The actual worshiping aspect is so diverse and varied, that is actually not a defining aspect of religion.

The supine hypocrisy of religions is exposed by things like for example, both Jewish and Christian traditions labeling usury as both immoral but actually antithetical to the wishes of god. Yet, usury... which is now know as interest/credit, is the very engine of our economy. And the bigger actors in the financial establishment which controls our lives via usury are, no doubt, devout Jewish and Christian individuals.