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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
It's still based on outright lies and its entire purpose is control by means of fear, but I suppose it's the least bad of the big ones, and it certainly does have its benefits in that it provides moral structure in people's lives. A fucking lot of people seem to need it, so I don't have a problem with living alongside it. That said, it's batshit and I think people who really believe in it are daft. God? Maybe, whatever. Adam and Eve? Yeah shut up.
Building on what Mademoiselle Poopadoop said,
It seems to be that most religion hasn't been believed literally. That stuff appears to be a recent innovation that probably evolved due to its effectiveness at eliciting conformity to the religion.
The roots of Christianity were not taken literally. It's the Protestants that took literalism and ran with it.
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