(December 26, 2015 at 7:33 pm)loganonekenobi Wrote:(December 26, 2015 at 5:19 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Control is one way memes propagate. The meme need not be false to require a means of propagation. Yahweh could be real and the way to spread that knowledge might still benefit from appealing to the mechanism of control. You've mistaken a value added part of religion for a necessary one. Control isn't necessary, but it is useful.
I'm not sure i understand what you mean. If you could explain in a diferent way. It seems to me that the religious think that control is neccessary. It also apears that this is the real reason why the ideology of restraining ones normal healthy desires continues. At least that what i get out of it.
Religion functions on multiple levels. Sure, it aims to control but it also strokes the pleasure receptors in the brain. That it uses the modus operandi of control doesn't mean that this apparatus is the reason for its being. You're confusing an explanation for why religion emphasizes control for the explanation for why religion uses control. Control is just one tool in its arsenal of weapons.
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