Religion is a self-serving, self-righteous establishment with the sole purpose of giving those in power even more power. While at the same time enslaving the masses to a doctrine that would not withstand even a cursory scrutiny by any sane intelligent person.
This is accomplished by employing a medium that is based in fear, guilt and shame. If this fails, torture may be used if allowed by the church.
This is offset by offering a slight chance of redemption and salvation at the end of one’s life, providing the rules as set down by the church hierarchies are followed without question.
The vast majority of people are indoctrinated into religion as helpless infants that stood no chance a life time of religious brain washing that they were about to be exposed to.
Religion has caused many to be slaughtered in warfare, it has broken up homes when one spouse would not bow to the other spouse’s religion. It has adversely effected young children. Indeed! Even today many young children in orphanages world-wide still fall victims of ill-treatment and raped by some of those pious monsters that like to portray themselves as the keepers of morality and virtue.
Any sane thinking person could only see regimes such as these as these as only deserving contempt, disgust and ridicule. While retaining a feeling of pity for those innocents that have been duped by a litany or lies and deceit.
Trevor E. Cowan (Freethinker)
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