[akudha]

Religion has always been and will always be a very effective way to control the masses. It is much cheaper and easier than armies and bombs.

Can you get large groups of people to do stupid stuff like don't have sex before marriage, don't swear etc, by any method? The only way, is religion. We can read religious texts and take some good things from them, but following everything a religion (any religion) says blindly is just dumb. Most the time, religious texts are interpreted for convenience and petty agenda anyway, not necessarily for truth.

Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r-e2NDSTuE

[ipaddr]

We have evolved to remove God from religion but we still blindly follow pop-cultural leaders, politicians, appointed experts. Controlling people with mass media is easier than organized religion.