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i would agree that it is
"be good or suffer eternal punishment of some sort"
People suck
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Obviously it is.
Islam more so than any other major religion that I know of. 40 virgins and all that. But it's not like it's that far off from most other religions.
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Of course it is. It's why priests of any religion have been untouchable since man first started telling ghost stories about why the sun goes away.
No matter how innocent the religion may have started, man always manages to make it about control and exerting power over other men.
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Of our nemesis who are to blame
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I have found that society is way of controlling people.
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I read that religion was started because the king couldn't control everyone so they needed the all seeing eye who could see what you were doing and even read your mind.
Well, anyways, I'm not a subscriber to any religion much less the all seeing eye or big skooky in the sky.
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Absolutely. Likely why I quit practicing organized religion.
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