(November 18, 2017 at 5:49 pm)It_Was_me Wrote: How is it that these two are practiced by a combined 2 billion people around the globe. What is it about these religions that have given them the ability to maintain control over the masses? Also, why is it people still associate with religion? Such as specific denominations? Not really sure why you'd want to always be told what you can and can't do by some crusty old men. But that's just me.
American christianty is the easiest to follow. You don't have to give up doing anything you weren't doing beforehand, you can keep your prejudices and bigotry, you get a big ego-stroke by knowing you have a personal relationship with a god, as well as having a lot of people agreeing with you, and you get a whole bunch of people who you can look down on and claim they're persecuting you.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
