RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 21, 2015 at 2:58 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2015 at 3:01 pm by pocaracas.)
(March 21, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Delicate Wrote: Even today, people, who are very flawed and human hardly have time to manufacture grand myths and struggle to live in accordance to them.
I mean, most of the myths I hear concocted are designed to serve some person's interests. David Koresh, or Charles Manson. Most religions don't have such a feature.
Right.... back then, the rulers used a previously established religion to strengthen their hold on the people.... nowadays, the pre-existing religions already have too strong a hold on the people (and there are many more people) for new cults to grow enough.... also, "Separation of church and state" tends to help.
