This is such a great perspective. The systems that enrich a handful of people globally beyond imagination by siphoning resources from all those below them would fall apart if people started on the path with religion and took it to its inevitable conclusions. Church and organized religion on the whole tickles that inate understanding we all have deep within us, but caps your exploration off with a deliberate dead end, feeding you misdirection and using "faith" as a tool to fill in all the holes in the story.
I really think church was created to keep people AWAY from Christ.
Christ is not what people think -- he is the template for the next level of human evolution.
We'll naturally move closer to that template UNLESS something intentionally holds us back.
That's what organized religions are for. To hold us back from our own evolution.
They saw this huge grass roots movement starting around His teachings -- and had to co-opt it.
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This is such a great perspective. The systems that enrich a handful of people globally beyond imagination by siphoning resources from all those below them would fall apart if people started on the path with religion and took it to its inevitable conclusions. Church and organized religion on the whole tickles that inate understanding we all have deep within us, but caps your exploration off with a deliberate dead end, feeding you misdirection and using "faith" as a tool to fill in all the holes in the story.