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Originally Posted by Molearner
Ayar415,
The wish to acquire territory and the opportunity to plunder and to gain more subjects. To justify this it becomes advantageous to appropriate religion.
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Quite true. The bottom line is that religion is as good as the practitioner.
Religion speaks to the human soul lost in the wilderness of despair. This wilderness is the home of beasts. If you are happy in this life living among fellow homo sapiens on Planet Earth, you don't need religion.
Even if you are not happy and would rather tough it out than submit to a higher power for deliverance, you don't need religion. You can choose the path of an unrepentant, convicted felon, face the death sentence rather than seek relief and appeal for a presidential pardon.