RE: Ethics
October 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2013 at 2:15 pm by Raven.)
Religion was not created for the purpose of ethics. Why would it be? People can come up with that without any of that attached to it. Religion is all about control. Ancient Israel was a theocracy, the priests had a lot of power and only their own were let in. Even with even less developed societies than that the local Shaman has a great deal of influence. The religious leaders have frequently been the only ones who could give the political leaders a hard time. How about the pope back in the days of the Borgias and Medicis? That good old ladie's man Henry VIII started his own religion to get around that. Control of the people is what it has always been about, nothing more. The best way to get people to behave the way you want historically was to scare the shit out of them with what the gods would do if they did not behave.
Kinda doesn't work so well anymore, but some still fall for it. Religion is just a crock, and no good can ever come of it.
Kinda doesn't work so well anymore, but some still fall for it. Religion is just a crock, and no good can ever come of it.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
