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Originally Posted by Krauter
In my opinion, religion is almost always the root cause of any conflict or tension. However, abolishing religion would only cause social collapse, both in the West and East[/QUOTE Much truth behind those words that religion, are behind conflicts around the world
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I agree to a point. If you study early religion, governments couldn't help but use it as a tool to control the masses, even christianity. Doctrines such as hell and torture hardly existed in the christian church until 400AD.
Properly translated you won't find this hell in the bible. Rome needed tools of fear and guilt to control the masses, so pagan doctrines were mixed with christian doctrine.
However, even if you snub out religion, other belief system would seek to fill the void. Even though I'm more agnostic these days, even atheism is a organized belief system, same as socialism, communism, ect. Seems we will always have some type of system, either worshipping God or man in some form.
In the end it's about power and as long as greed exist, someone will think of something.