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Old 09-11-2017, 02:34 PM
Kioma
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Originally Posted by Lorelyen
... With the world in its current state it's impossible to guarantee there'll be no repeat of the religious past...
There is no shortage of people, religious or secular, waiting for even the slightest opportunity to take advantage of others. That is physicality.

That is the real problem - religion in this context is just a pretext, so with that in actuality it has nothing to do with 'religion', other than taking advantage of such precepts as blind faith, and as I said I agree with Lorelyen that the reality of organized religion leads inevitably from focusing on spirit to focusing on power. It's a pretext - they will always have the rhetoric down of whoever they are trying to sucker, but by carefully observing cause and effect, rather than listening to their spiel, their real agenda makes itself apparent.

Those who crave power are drawn to places of authority, religious or secular, like moths to a flame, and it takes people who actually care about principles over power to be constantly vigilant and constantly fight against them. If they were to stop at any moment, all would be quickly overwhelmed.

This is the age-old fight of good versus evil.

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