Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

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14. Organized religion is simply not ancient government.

Sun Jan 15, 2012, 12:35 PM

Jan 2012

"I assume you reference the Middle East early “governments”"

No. I mean every civilization that has a priest- or shaman-like tribe member who uses some supernatural "power" or claim to exert power over the tribe. This could be everywhere on the planet and deep back into prehistory. All the way up to Kings who rule by divine right... Like George III did. Or Michele Bachmann or Rick Santorum who make religious claims to their superiority to run things.

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Religion: History's very first panopticon. [View all] backscatter712 Jan 2012 OP

The New Testament invented thought-crime. laconicsax Jan 2012 #1

? greyl Jan 2012 #2

Very true. Look at the Ten Commandments... backscatter712 Jan 2012 #3

You're right. My mistake. laconicsax Jan 2012 #4

Disdain manipulates too. husserl49 Jan 2012 #5

Semantics manipulates too AlbertCat Jan 2012 #6

Organizations organize husserl49 Jan 2012 #8

What do you think of Pat Robertson? FiveGoodMen Jan 2012 #9

Organized religion is simply not ancient government. AlbertCat Jan 2012 #14

Religion probably pre-dates literacy... rexcat Jan 2012 #7

negation of religion is also an ideology lindysalsagal Jan 2012 #11

What's this "negation of religion" you refer to? EvolveOrConvolve Jan 2012 #12

Regardless of what early ideas caused the formation of religion... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2012 #13

I think you're right. Deep13 Jan 2012 #10