Is religion used to control people?

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(06-10-2016, 02:36 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: No matter how innocent the religion may have started, man always manages to make it about control and exerting power over other men.

This....
Man is fallible.
Many of them were used to create likeminded people to expand and unify a people.
The core is usually wholesome, but man contorts it to his needs.
Heck, look at Catholicism.
No birth control, make more Catholics dammit.
(Insert Python's "Every sperm is sacred" here)