(May 4, 2015 at 1:18 am)dahrling Wrote: Were religions invented as a way to keep order, then?Some were and a lot of them may have started off with "good intentions", but once a structure is established and a leader appointed, there will always be the control freak and in the end, most (if not all) religions become controlling organizations. As soon as a religion participates in politics, it is obvious that control is the agenda rather than worship.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
