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Originally Posted by tater
Religion is a human invention, so it shares all the flaws of humanity at large.
The trouble is that it gives those problems infinite authority.
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It absolutely does, but so do each of man's constructs. Politics, for example, gives a select few control over the many. It is no wonder then, that some of man's earliest political structures were religiously-oriented. The village shaman was often one of the leaders of the community. The Roman Catholic Church was the largest political player in feudal-age Europe. Religion has been in evolution, as has the rest of man's social structures.