Christianity is heading for a full allegorization

[Spongebob]

The important thing is Greek mythology only became merely a good collection of symbols after it stopped being a religion.    

The purpose of religion is not to be good symbols, but to create a set of coercive fictions to enforce behavior control, for the benefit of a specific clique.

Yes, I believe that's very insightful.

Have you ever studied the period of Christianity between, say 200 and 1000?  Its fascinating how much diversity there was in the religion back then and each faction did everything in their power to get the others to fall in line, including killing them.  And most of this was over very specific ideas like the Christ's mortal vs divine nature and the use of religious icons.

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I feel that we are fortunate to live in an era when religion has been pushed far enough from power that people are not forced to submit to its demands, in the free world anyway. Lets hope this era never ends and only pushes religion farther and farther from daily life.