You and Unc are both deluded if you think that getting rid of religion will change anything.
Grrr... BTW, what cult do you usenow ? --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/
