barjon
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I wasn't suggesting that you don't need systems in order that a mass of people can live together in reasonable harmony. And I purposely said "organised" religion rather than meaning the tenets of religion themselves -it's the way the various faiths organise themselves that conveys the power *(and wealth) to the relatively few.
Look at the extremes of communism and capitalism during the cold war. You had the leaders of the respective systems prepared to blow the world to bits rather than face "conversion" to the opposing system. Why? Well, it would have been the "establishment" that would have been mainly affected by such a change whilst the common herd busy trying to feed, house and clothe their families wouldn't have noticed a great change in their daily lives.
jon
I wasn't suggesting that you don't need systems in order that a mass of people can live together in reasonable harmony. And I purposely said "organised" religion rather than meaning the tenets of religion themselves -it's the way the various faiths organise themselves that conveys the power *(and wealth) to the relatively few.
Look at the extremes of communism and capitalism during the cold war. You had the leaders of the respective systems prepared to blow the world to bits rather than face "conversion" to the opposing system. Why? Well, it would have been the "establishment" that would have been mainly affected by such a change whilst the common herd busy trying to feed, house and clothe their families wouldn't have noticed a great change in their daily lives.
jon