03-07-2018, 10:25 AM
Religion is and has always been a way for a very select few to maintain control over the multitudes. The name and details are unimportant. Humans are tribal by nature and inclined to cooperation but among our earliest instincts is the need to be the alpha male/female for various purposes generally related to wealth acquisition and procreation. So all our earliest hierarchies, from religion to government, revolved around people claiming divine right to be the boss. Little has changed in that regard. Whenever the populace of a given society figures out how much they outnumber the ruling class, things generally go badly for the leaders. So the claims of divine right get ever more complex, ever more intricate, to insure that those in power stay there.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.