The great wisdom of Poverty

[Brian37]

Religions make a virtue of poverty. Christ came to the starving and desperate and convinced them that their suffering was somehow moral in itself, he didn't teach them how to change, how to grow, he only ever taught them that their toil would be rewarded, that their dead children were waiting for them at a special farm. He taught them complacency and submission.

Well hello Mr. Nietzsche, how's it going?

Nietzsche? Hell even Shakespeare saw the folly of life "flurry of activity signifying nothing".

I see nothing wrong with pointing out how religion poisons human thought and gets humans to go against their own self interests. Now to be fair, this applies to all religion. No you cant force it out of existence. But it does set up social pecking orders, not based on any real power through democracy, but power based on fantasy, ritual and old crap.

Religion is nothing more than an excuse humans make to set up social pecking orders. It has no real value in a pragmatic sense. It is mere gap filling.