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Why is religion so interested in micro managing it's followers?
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RE: Why is religion so interested in micro managing it's followers?
(June 25, 2018 at 7:15 am)Libertarian God Wrote: I really never understood this. This is one reason why I think religion is silly. Because it seems they are more interested in controlling your life. It is more of a don't do this, don't that sort of thing. For example, in Christianity and Islam masturbation is frowned upon and is considered a serious sin. I think as to why it is viewed this way can be an entire separate discussion regarding the logic behind this. Perhaps this is one of those questions that just can't be answered properly. Religion in itself is something I have a huge issue with. Mostly for this reason. I could be wrong here, but my theory is that religion was built as a way to control large amounts of people. Did you know only priests were only allowed to read the bible during the medieval times? They were afraid that people would see parts of the bible that they didn't want them to see. Then you have the entire thing where they were changing the bible multiple times in order to fit a particular political/personal agenda. I mean, for all we know the bible that exists today could be nowhere near the original thing. Sorry to go off topic here...

Because it wouldn’t be worth the efforts of the hucksters who created them if it didn’t enable these hucksters to control people with them.
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