QUOTE(Bella-Angelique @ Mar 2 2006, 01:11 AM) [snapback]1086531[/snapback]
I think this is the case.
The whole point was to turn humans towards worshipping morality and ethics and compassion for their fellow man.
Stories of gods and their likes and dislikes just always led to rituals in an attempt to suck up to them and manipulate them to get special attention with no real regard for ethics, morality, and the logical needed to sustain and grow a healthy civilization.
Bella why would you Worship morality, ethics, and compassion for your fellow man???Religon hasn't grown a "functional society, and morals are only as good as the systems mandating them and in the case of religon it very obvious they have done very little in the way of prevention and much in the way of promotion, these are simply storys of man wanting control, uisng fear to get it. It is not nessecary to manipulate a person who has not been relanguaged by religon to automatically chose what is beneficial for the most, its natural, to seek more 'good' its inherent in everything, Religion first tells you and convinces you that everything you think and are is wrong, that what you find as truth inside is not so, then they pour in their 'truth' using fear,thus making you dependent on the religion, ( after all'god' is big buisness and its looking for longevity) Its pretty cut and dry... Namaste sheri