• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Having a religion in a society makes them easier to control. Lot of death comes with it though.

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      Not always. In East Germany the (protestant) churches were some of the few places where organised resistance against the dictatorship was possible.

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      8 days ago

      Having a religion in a society makes them easier to control.

      That’s literally what religion was invented for.

      Lot of death comes with it though.

      Yeah, but that’s mainly hundreds of millions of SOCIAL murders of POOR people, which is the equivalent of less than one murder of a Fortune 500 CEO or state level or above politician. Just the cost of doing business in capitalism and theocratic fascism.