NationStates Jolt Archive

well, it used to be in the middle ages when the church was a powerful actor on the state and in people's everyday lives. the church hijacked a powerful and good set of ideals - religion, christianity - and used it to further its own power and wealth. ensuring everybody learns their religious teachings - native european non-christians were unheard of during most of the dark and middle ages - meant nobody escaped the net and thus nobody (few) could question the church's power. making people believe that if they believed, prayed and gave to the church they would be rewarded in the afterlife - evidently being vague on the details of a completely unsubstantiated claim. if you don't believe and follow the church's power, you will, apparently, go to hell and be tormented in the most horrible ways for all eternity. its a no-brainer really, any person who was brought up to believe is going to not take the chance and believe in an attempt to avoid hell.


its like a modern day monopoly telling everybody in europe to buy their product and give up a large amount of their time each day/week to the firm, and those that don't buy will be killed (ie burn in hell).


frankly, its so obvious, its ridiculous.

christianity itself may be a good force with honest and noble intentions, and may be something we can all learn from. just like the hippies (Jesus WAS a hippie!)... just the church and organised religion have taken this and warped it to suit their own designs.


thoughts? agree/disagree? (i so want Jesussaves to reply to this :p )