That's always been my take on it as well. Don't complain about all the shit you have to put up with in your life, because when you're dead (and conveniently can't report back) you'll have all the riches that the ruling and priestly elite deny you now and infinitely more. In fact, not only should you be thankful for all that shit, you really should be demanding more, you ungrateful sinner. And if you aren't content with your lot, give in to your dirty natural human urges, or simply don't believe this stuff, well then there's a place for you and I hope you remember to pack your asbestos long johns. And don't even think about mentioning all the wealth, fine food and luxury that your betters have to endure. Not only is envy one of the worst of the sins you'll be punished for, don't you realise what these people are doing for you? Denying themselves a place in heaven just so you don't have to? You ought to get down on your knees and beg forgiveness, you godless heathen! Actually, while you're down there...
That's basically it, in a nutshell. People in, say, the fourteenth century can be forgiven for falling for the con; after all, theirs was a world rife with superstition. I genuinely can't think why anyone in this so-called more enlightened era, the information age, would wilfully chain themselves.
That's basically it, in a nutshell. People in, say, the fourteenth century can be forgiven for falling for the con; after all, theirs was a world rife with superstition. I genuinely can't think why anyone in this so-called more enlightened era, the information age, would wilfully chain themselves.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
