On Sun, 28 May 2017 22:46:08 -0400, Meanie wrote:

On 5/28/2017 9:36 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 29 May 2017 01:12:54 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:



Don't forget, all religions exist as tools for one group of people to
influence, control and extract resources from another, much larger
group of people.

Deities are inventions of humans, little different than a pry bar,
tools to separate people from their valuables and gain control over
their free will.

Religions are tools of the unscrupulous and a refuge for the weak of
mind.


I am sorry you have had such a bad experience with "religions"
Some organizations may indeed be as you say - but most certainly not
all. What you describe is a theocracy, like the catholic church.

There are religeous organizations that have no "elite class" that
"lives off the masses"


http://www.alternet.org/belief/6-way...-more-bad-good
That is the opinion of the English Catholic (church of England) and RC
churches by the English.

The assessment of those 2 "religious Institutions" may be accurate -
they are "theocracies", not religions or true "churches" or
"religions" or "faiths"