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Originally Posted by SeeBass
I am not argueing, I thought we were just adults having a friendly disscussion. I know it cant be confirmned, it is a discussion about religion for crying out loud. I am throwing out thoughts for discussion.
If you would like to join a forum that had no opinions allowed, it would make for a very slow site.
Do you know why there were dark ages in Europe. It was the struggle of Kings claiming divine right as they used religion to justify their actions.
have you ever seen the order of the masses? God on top with a King claiming to be chosen from God and where was religion but standing at the front right beside them sharing in that power. I would WONDER how long Kings could maintain power with just might and without the aid of divine right.
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There are also examples that are fairly numerous of the ability to hold onto power with just might as opposed to some religious right to power.
The French kings were continually overthrown and they were kingships seeped in religion. The Russian Aristocracy fell because of an absence of final might and religion didn't protect it.
For the most part the people didn't cow to their kings because of religion, but because they had been indoctrinated into the life of being a peasant for so long that life just didn't seem so bad. And there was a fear that what might come after was worse.
If these kings who were one step under god didn't have the might to enforce their power they would have been left in the dust or lost their head in so many of the revolutions that occurred with or without church backing.
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Yes there has been good from religion but I feel the cons outweigh the pros.
I wish you all goodnight it is late
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I honestly think that there is a convenient scapegoating of religion that is used to cover the basic weakness of man. While the various religions in the world have to take a lot of the blame for troubles. I think mans darker, violent and more aggressive nature is a bigger factor in the problems that haunt mankind.