Is Christianity a government conspiracy to keep common people stupid?

Question

Let's face it, there is nothing intelligent about intelligent design, and pi does not equal three. With as much as Christianity contributes to the "dumbing down" of society, doesn't it make sense that the government supports it so strongly to keep the majority of it's populace hidebound flunkies incapable of making informed, educated decisions?

Answer 1

I don't think religion is a govenment conspiracy. To prove my point, you can look at Communist societies that try to abolish religion and can not be fully successful. Religious people feel persecuted when people try to take their religion away from them and replace their fears and superstitions with facts.

If religion were fed to the people as a requirement to better control the people, the people wouldn't cling to it like they do if the government tries to abolish it.

Religion does dumb down society but it can hardly be prevented...people refuse to believe in what the see and lack self confidence and therefore need some mystical and invisable friend to believe in to take the blame for bad things and credit for the good ones.

No conspiracy. Its all individual choice.

Answer 2

--If you are expressing yourself concerning Christs Christianity you are indeed beyond any intelligence & wrong! There are people with intelligence that have indeed acknowledged Christs uniqueness:

--The historian H. G. Wells said that a man’s greatness can be measured by ‘what he leaves to grow, and whether he started others to think along fresh lines with a vigor that persisted after him.’ Wells, although not claiming to be a Christian, acknowledged: “By this test Jesus stands first"

--Yet, strangely, some say that Jesus never lived—that he is, in effect, a creation of some first-century men.
--Answering such skeptics, the respected historian Will Durant argued: “That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.”

--There is indeed a great difference in the government supported christianity of the depraved Constantine about 300 CE, and the christianity that religions have hypocritically sponsored, similarly in our day!

There are those who practice Christs' Christianity and do indeed keep separate from the world, and they are not in monastaries.

Answer 3

it fairly is the television station with the backside channel that comes out with such stupid shows that needs to maintain people stupid. and that they can't even comprehend why the different channels are outdoing them in terms of score and psychological shows. Re government procedures like BIR, SSS - they supply seminars to enterprise proprietors who're commencing their agencies. it fairly is the accountants who shop the enterprise proprietors at nighttime so as that they could skim some money off their purchasers. Ask any enterprise proprietor lining up interior the government places of work to technique and pay, it variety of feels like the accountants on no account end the artwork for the purchasers. Ask the accountants and that they don't be responsive to additionally. consequently they are asked to bypass back to college for his or her persevering with preparation. For real belongings, bypass to the real belongings experts and their institutions like REBAP, the do supply loose criminal consultations. government place of work approaches consistently undergo alter in approaches with new rules periodically popping out so no handbooks could properly be made because it rather is a waste of money.

Answer 4

The government is more likely to capitalize on the prevalence of religion than to promote it. They are not bright enough to manipulate things so completely.

The US society just has a strong bias toward religion, just like other cultures have their own identifying factors.

Answer 5

I don't think it is to keep them stupid but to keep them under control. I think it was especially true in the dark ages when the church and government went hand in hand. Fear is an excellent way to control someone. And Christianity is full of scary things.

Answer 6

If it is a conspiracy it would be to keep the common man down as so they will not reject authority.

Answer 7

Look up Roman Emperor Constantine, you may be on to something.

Answer 8

What is this? "Dumbed down" Marx? Really, can you make any greater generalization or substitute gerater vapidity for reasoning?

Answer 9

yes it has been working well in the usa the church runs the usa by the back door

Answer 10

That was funny, it clearly was a joke not a question! However misguided.