(June 19, 2012 at 7:17 pm)cato123 Wrote: [/i].
Promising the good life after life is done is only a means to keep people in their place. It does nothing to change their plight. People in poor condition are nothing more than easy victims for proselytizing. Many will belive in anything, at least for the moment, if they know there is a meal at the end of the sermon.
Exactly, the good life in hereafter for the oppressed is promised solely for the purposes of protecting the good life in the here and now of the oppressors.
The false hope of religion is but a tool to extinguish well founded hope of real improvement.
