The Social Standing of the priest class in history

[Paul the Human]

In modern (western) society, what people think (let's say many or most people) comes from the media, which is guided by corporations and political agendas. This includes religion to a large degree, as well. Unfortunately, too many people seem to believe whatever they are told by Fox News. I think that there are certainly groups that believe and think as groups, e.g. church congregations, but it doesn't seem like any one 'Central Church' as a whole has much sway over the individual as compared to the media or small individual church congregations. The result, it seems, is an incredibly broad spectrum of beliefs and ideologies. Perhaps this will be remembered as the Age of Divisiveness.