(March 24, 2012 at 11:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I've often joked that if you gave me the power to torture and kill people in public within 20 years I could have the masses worshiping a fucking toaster.
Woah.. I never thought of it like that. You don't even need violence. All that is required is to 'show' the masses that the external being requires the internal beings to do actions {A,B,C...X}, otherwise the external being will punish them.
I know it's pretty obvious that that's how religion works but I've never thought of it as literally that black and white before!
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
