Who believes RELIGION is designed to CONTROL THE WEAK?

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Designed by those who CONTROL the riches of the world.

Designed and controlled by those who can GOVERN.

Designed to be pushed down the throats of those who have simple minds with no complexity of thought or comprehension?



They who walked the earth first, has primary control of the resources forever. RIGHT?

WHO OWNS THE EARTH?

Answer 1

Yes, yes, yes. A million times YES!

Answer 2

Julius Caesar, by all standards a successful politician and general, obviously had quite a superior amount of intelligence compared to most of the roman population. He did not believe that the god's controlled his fate BUT...he would tell his soldiers that before battle and that if they had bravery the gods would protect them. Of course the Roman soldiers had 'faith' in him..something pushed into their minds as a good thing but only really something that meant 'do what I tell you w/o having a reason'. So...Julius Caesar was a very good gerneral b/c his troops charged bravely into the enemy lines 'knowing' and 'feeling' the gods' protection. Eventually, science advanced far enough to prove that there was no Zeus in the clouds or Gods on top of Mt. Olympus but the Roman soldiers that died at the hands of Carthaginian, Gallic, Egyptian swords didn't know that, did they?...see! religion is not always a bad thing. Controlling the weak and pushing forward the strong is the sole purpous of it's existence. =:)

Answer 3

I own the earth, of course, but regarding your other question, religion isn't designed. It just sort of happens. Like everything else under the sun, people use it for their own purposes, sleazy or otherwise. I'll give you an analogy. Most people think the Mafia is bad, but Mafia people won't turn down an opportunity to make money just because it happens to be legal. Religion is sort of like that with the good and the bad all mixed up together in an Irish stew.

Answer 4

i think that religion is all a big scam, thats bin around too long, and i have believed this since i asked my pretcher when i was 15 if everything has a beging, where did god come from and if there is a god why cant there be more than one the true answer is that there is no real god it is all just the human need for something more in life and death. religion is based on the faith in something or some one you will never see or meet until you die and once you are dead how are you to prove the existance of a god or not?????

Answer 5

Like all things made by man, Religion eventually becomes corrupted every now and then by the same sorts of people you speak of. It evolved into a tool for Social Control, but it was not designed as one.

Religion is not essentially evil, rather it is the simpletons and who cannot think beyond their existence and the conniving who manipulate it for their own ends who distort and ruin Religion.

Answer 6

The FREE rule themselves and the religious follow others opinions.The religious are still beautiful people,mind you,just hold a lot of fear by being told that if they believe in a certain idol(symbol),ritual,or way of worship and stray off course for a second(as humans do)they will not get into Heaven.Wht the weaker humans do is learn about their Gods and Devils then stay stagnent inside of their fear of them.Never exploring their humanity to follow their own hearts and develop their own ways to worship a Creator.Jesus was trying to tell His followers that by the calm charismatic teachings so that they would see God as who He really truly is.So the peoples would outgrow the memorizing of verses to write them on their hearts instead and congregate into churches to overcome the boundaries of church walls in the long run.To explore religion is reaching for mans ways but exploring the Father in Heaven Himself is reaching for Godlike compliance.He likes this.

Answer 7

You know all those images of Jesus leading the sheep?!!!!!


Maybe Jesus is "those who control the riches of the world"
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the sheep "those who have simple minds with no complexity of thought or comprehension"

BUT we need those sheep or sh*t would happen, like you said SOCIAL Control.

I have also thought this many times.?!

Answer 8

thats a marxist's view, they believe that religion is socially constructed in order to keep the rich, rich and prevent a revolution from the working class. Quotes like " those who were last, will be first in heaven" ensures that the poor will not rise up against the class system as they will be rewarded in heaven. Religion was made for the rich to exploit working class people!!!!!

Answer 9

Religion, like it or not, has a long history of helping man-kind. Ever since the first man-apes saw the mysterious black monolith, we've created rituals to try to figure out our place in the universe and how to get along.

Your 'explanation' doesn't account for 99.999% of man's religious thoughts or history.

But thanks for the cliche.

Answer 10

The Bible actually addresses your perspective and you are not very far off:

1 Corinthians 1:

18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."[c]
20Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

26Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before him. 30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

Answer 11

Lemme guess..you believe in secret codes and conspiracies and that there is a secret government that actually rules the world...am I getting close?
Stop being so paranoid. Nobody forces anyone to believe in anything. We have free will, remember? If you don't want to believe in God, don't.