Is religion founded on this principle? "If a lie is perpetuated often enough, it becomes a truth"?

Answer 1

Indeed.Just like if a rumor is told often enough it becomes truth regardless of whether it actually was or wasn't truth and often the rumor will change as it is passed along.Just like religion.

Answer 2

No?! I think, I say, I say, I think the religious works is founded on evident facts that have become distorted by people whose languages were so difficult to translate to the King James Version that the details of how to start a garden were left out of the story of Adam and Eve.

Just because King James did not have a clue about what the words that said, "First you take a shovel and loosen a blade full and turn the earth on it's side and beat it with the blade to loosen it". He omitted them.
As well as, leaving out the important steps to follow lifting the soil up, like, "Remove all the harmful insect eggs, cut worms, and roots that will hinder the crops." and so on.

He would have figured it out soon enough but he got so wound up on the soap opera of troubles. You know the story with God Gardeners and Adam while potty training Eve that he just did not find time to go back and re-read the whole Hebrew text from beginning to end.
I mean think about it, would you want to spend forty more days and forty more nights just translating all the names of the ancestors listed in the Genealogy?

Especially, when you could translate the wonders of battle, mystery, and intrigue that his Hebrew teacher got him all excited about.

I think that Hebrew language teacher should not have told him so many lurid details before completing the lessons of how to grow a good bunch of tomato, potato, and corn crops. Also squash, peas, broccoli, asparagus, apples, oranges, pineapples, pears, grapes, and all sorts of stuff we could have learned to make a new garden, in our own back yards, from.

Answer 3

If a lie is perpetuated often enough it is PERCEIVED as truth.

Religion goes back to the dawn of Man when Mankind didn't understand but tried to explain death and natural phenomenon. Many stories in the Old and New Testament actually pre-dated the Old Testament such as a virgin birth and the great flood. Modern religion (AD1– present day), began with a noble idea then evolved into a tool for power. Sometimes I wonder if Satan (if Satan exists) invented religion to divide Mankind against Itself in the name of God.

Answer 4

No. The principle you describe comes from Goebbels .. . .Hitler's Minister of Propaganda during the Nazi regime. It is called the "Goebbels technique" ... If you tell a lie often enough . . . people will believe it.

I don't think religions are founded on that principle. Cults may be like Scientology and right-wing Christian fundamentalists like Jerry Falwell.

Answer 5

A lie is only a lie if it can be proved a lie. But conjecture perpetuated and compounded can become a "truth"....to some.

Answer 6

No. Brainwashing is founded on this principle. Religion just makes wonderfully successful use of it.

Answer 7

You bet. In fact, preconscious indoctrination is one of the best brain washing methods in existence, creating an uncritical acceptance (reinforced with confirmation bias) in those that are crippled intellectually by religiously abusive parents.

Answer 8

It seems to be as evidence isn't needed, plus the ones who are most religious seems to be ok with endorsing evils

Answer 9

I don't know the first time that was stated but it was used by Adolph Hitler ...sad but true.

Answer 10

yes, is founded in that principle.