TurquoiseB wrote: >--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > >>Are you guys for real? >>It has nothing to do w religions, never did. It's just about >>power and self interest. The religion stuff is just to make >>it more 'holy', as a cover. >> >> > >Study a bit of history. Power and self interest IS >the story of religion. > >It shouldn't be. They all start well, as an emanation >of Someone Who Has Caught A Clue. Many of the Clueful >were probably enlightened. And yet the eternal story >of so many religions is that within two generations of >the death of the founder, the religions formed in their >name become about power and self interest. Sometimes >it doesn't even take that long. > >Wars have been fought for -- and by -- the clergy of >these religions. Fortunes have been made, kings and >queens tumbled from their thrones. ALL in the name >of religion. > >Sometimes it's politicians using the religion as a >cover, to make their actions seem more 'holy.' Some- >times it's clergy using the politicians, for the >same reason. > >As someone once said so well, "It's a DOS planet." > >Unc > > A very good reason to get rid of religion altogether. In the tinfoil hat crowd there is a belief that one of the alien forces that have been running us in their mazes introduced religion to see what effect it has. Maybe mantras do nothing more than just stimulate our brains to give us some kind of high and that is it.
And as you *almost* point out religions get institutionalized when some king decides it is useful for subjugating people. IOW, another distraction to keep from toppling him. Usually they goof up and get toppled anyway just as the Bushites will be source of their own toppling. - Bhairitu To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
