RE: I still don't understand why anyone would make up a person like the Biblical Christ..
August 8, 2011 at 7:02 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2011 at 7:07 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:Like there was a lot of money and power to be gained from the poor of those days.
Oh please.
The poor remain the power base of organised religions everywhere as they always have.It's no coincidence that religion's membership is growing in the poorest countries. In the richest countries, religion is in decline,and atheism is growing..
Who else do you think makes those areshole televangelists and happy clappy neanderthals so rich?
The only [mainly] bourgeois churches of which I'm aware are Mormons,Church Of England (Episcopalian) and in the US ,Unitarians.
The last time I looked, the poor also vote,in their millions,guided by the subtlty and intellectual depth of Fox News and Sarah Pallin. The blue collar and petite bougeoisie have Oprah to tell them what to think.
Never underestimate the power of the great unwashed when manipulated by clever and cynical people. It is the poor who win revolutions and who do most of the actual dying in all wars. It has always been thus. No gullible poor,no war.
