(December 15, 2018 at 8:59 am)no one Wrote: Organized religion is indeed mind control. Religion, in and of itself, when first introduced, was nothing more than primitive peoples attempt to understand a world they could not comprehend.
I think that the "mind control" aspect of religion and religious belief are the secondary aspect behind the motivation of faith. The two oldest documents in the history of humanity are the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Egyptian Book of the Dead, both of which address humanity's need to believe in an afterlife. It was this development in human evolution and the evolution of the human brain, the concept that we are all individuals with "minds" and intentionality, that led to the idea that oneself and hence others survive the death of their brains. But, after that, rulers of various stripes began to discover, quickly, that religion is an excellent means of political and social control.
