Enlighten Yourselves

[Delicate]

You're joking, of course - have you even seen the wealth oozing out of the Catholic Church, for one?

Yeah.



Pope's obviously living the high life off of his made-up religion.

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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.

It doesn't worry you, the ad hoc nature of your explanations?