Posted: May 21, 2015 4:08 am
Darwinsbulldog wrote:Religion is the practice of not seeing the man in the gorilla suit.
The church organisations know how to work the crowd. Business is business.
Or wearing the guerrilla suit. Or something.
Well Judaism, Christianity and Islam all started as centralised monotheistic state religions which were based on canonised "Holy Writs" and were all ushered in by supreme military warlords at the zenith of their military power. We all know war is a racket, but too few understand that these centralised monotheistic religions are the SPIN-OFF rackets of war. Why use a legion of soldiers and guerrillas to maintain the conquered territory of an empire when you can use a codex and a bishop?