02-20-2011, 04:31 AM
(02-19-2011, 08:28 PM)Cracker Wrote:What about the huge campaign over the ages against the jews? I have heard a rabbi describe it once as metaphysical and I would agree. There is something there.(02-19-2011, 06:14 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: Also MF the fights they are having these days are all about religion.
Who told you it was scientific? You might like to call me a DB but you contradicted yourself by mentioning a "tribalistic social dynamic". Keep going and I will throw down the gauntlet and ask you to back up what you are saying with some facts.
Religion is, and has always been, a way to control the masses. It is a social phenonmena that has more to do with tribalism and money and land and greed than it does with whatever respective savior or martyr.
The major tribes broke into the major religions. It is all based on geography and ethnicity and linguistics. I offer the Great Schism as an example of this fact. It wasn't just about leavening in the bread and the body of Christ.
Religious groups ARE modern-day tribes.
I am not controlled by religion and some of the smartest people I know acknowledge God. Like for example, my bioscience lecturer, she is a very smart woman with a photoscopic memory.
People are connecting with "something" I think its the unknown that is what all the fuss is about. There is something to it.