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Originally Posted by Armistead
I think Steve is a lot like me, once very involved in faith. I actually lost mine trying to find it. I think the problem is,
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Certainly religion played a needed role in early humanity in numerous ways. It helped explain then what science could not. No doubt even those religious have evolved, but the bigger question is when will we evolve out of the need of religion? My guess is most of the world isn't, because of lack of money and education. It's still the same, poor uneducated societies need religion to keep them from chaos.
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How else would a religious leader keep the masses subservient to his so called God given power and prevent them from rising up against their sovereign rulers? By claiming their sheep are heretics and killing them?
That was tried over and over and it took a long time to realize it wasn't working...
Considering the hundreds of years time frame of it all, I guess they just enjoyed torturing and murdering the peasants for pleasure.
Funny thing is it's still a common occurrence today in certain religions.
The only difference being, now the peasants are just rosy cheeked choir boys or participants in the church sports league.
The early church was also active in suppressing scientific discoveries.
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