RE: Just a theory
July 9, 2018 at 3:42 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2018 at 4:06 am by Fake Messiah.)
(July 8, 2018 at 11:56 pm)kbultra Wrote: I know this is very far fetched but hear me out. I was thinking about religion (I am newly atheist) and thought that maybe religion was originally made to keep early humans in order.
You think so? Geez I always thought that pharaohs calling themselves gods, popes crowning kings, emperors of Rome calling themselves gods as well as emperor of Japan, Hammurabi claiming he got laws from god, Vatican making a pact with Mussolini and Hitler were just coincidences, but now that you said it it kind of makes sense.
"All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher." - Lucretius, c. 94–49 B.C.E.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
