Relighions are control systems

Serendipity

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22 Jul 05

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22 Jul 05

Which get utilised in hegemonic forms by nation states......for exampl 'The meek shall inherit the earth' was used in the past to anesthetise the working class... more recently Islamic doctrine is used by terroists to anesthetise suicide bombers....

Full emancipation from religous ideologies will bring a freedom for the masses that will reduce state control, ergo religious belief is encouraged

dale21

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Serendipity
Which get utilised in hegemonic forms by nation states......for exampl 'The meek shall inherit the earth' was used in the past to anesthetise the working class... more recently Islamic doctrine is used by terroists to anesthetise suicide bombers....

Full emancipation from religous ideologies will bring a freedom for the masses that will reduce state control, ergo religious belief is encouraged

i think more people would post if you could spell religion correctly. 😉

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by dale21
i think more people would post if you could spell religion correctly. 😉

twas but a slip of the finger....urm...there's a joke there somewhere 🙂

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22 Jul 05

Where can I find the instruction manual for the control system?

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Where can I find the instruction manual for the control system?

in the vaults of the nation states govermental buildings

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22 Jul 05

Can you define religion? Is Mao's communism a religion?

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Coletti
Can you define religion? Is Mao's communism a religion?

A belief in metaphysics

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Serendipity
twas but a slip of the finger....urm...there's a joke there somewhere 🙂

a lapsus fingae ?

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by frogstomp
a lapsus fingae ?

exactly!

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Serendipity
A belief in metaphysics

Do you mean a belief in a philosophy of existence?

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Coletti
Do you mean a belief in a philosophy of existence?

urm.....wouldn't that be ontology, which is the study of being. So no I dont for a philosophy of existence would aim at emancipating humanity not controlling it with hegemony.

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Serendipity
urm.....wouldn't that be ontology, which is the study of being. So no I dont for a philosophy of existence would aim at emancipating humanity not controlling it with hegemony.

What then do you mean by a religion is "a belief in metaphysics"?

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Coletti
What then do you mean by a religion is "a belief in metaphysics"?

A belief in a another form of existence ie life after death, but you cant define religion in a forum, you would have to write a book to do that and even then it wouldn't be a definition in totality.

lets get back to the point 'relreligion is used to control....ie 'the meek shall inherit the earth' was used as an ideology to control the working class

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22 Jul 05

Originally posted by Serendipity
Which get utilised in hegemonic forms by nation states......for exampl 'The meek shall inherit the earth' was used in the past to anesthetise the working class... more recently Islamic doctrine is used by terroists to anesthetise suicide bombers....

Full emancipation from religous ideologies will bring a freedom for the masses that will reduce state control, ergo religious belief is encouraged

Most of the religious don't want to be liberated from their beliefs. How do you propose we 'emancipate' people from religious belief?

Is religious motivation alone enough to explain the abuses of power that have taken place in, say, the past century?

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23 Jul 05

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
Most of the religious don't want to be liberated from their beliefs. How do you propose we 'emancipate' people from religious belief?

Is religious motivation alone enough to explain the abuses of power that have taken place in, say, the past century?

yes