(January 21, 2022 at 3:39 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(January 21, 2022 at 3:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: On the contrary. Religion spends a tremendous amount of time and effort to get people to not think. This is why they call it ‘faith’.Nah, religion teaches people how to think in the right ways, minus all the extraneous societal brainwashing.
Boru
Religion teaches people how to believe on the way that increases the power of influence of that religion. The nature of religion is such that its influence and power diminishes the prospect of long term survival and prosperity of humanity.
It it didn’t, it wouldn’t need any of the salient attributed that characterize religion. So a harmless religion wouldn’t be a religion.