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.
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, feeding you misdirection and using "faith" as a tool to fill in all the holes in the story.