It is my belief that some of the founders of religion, like various rulers, were highly intelligent people. Especially the founders of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Think about it. These people created a mechanism that could control massive populations for millennia.
Furthermore, they devised an instrument that could silence anyone intelligent enough to figure this scam out. The increasingly loud voice of atheism is making more people abandon their faith than gain it. If this had happened in the early times, the scheme would topple and the people behind the scam would lose all control.
It was necessary, then, to convince the population that those who rejected the beliefs of the fabrication were somehow immoral or problematic to society, and that following in their footsteps would lead to an eternal punishment.
Why would such an instrument be used? I suppose there are two possibilities.
Perhaps it was the only way a government could work. Maybe populations rejected government unless they were convinced that there was a divine influence over them to submit to a government. The deceivers might have had good intentions, merely desiring peace and order in a population, and the scam just got out of control.
Another possibility is that they were simply bloodthirsty, murderous, thoughtless maniacs. Intelligent, but obviously not using it for the well-being of the human race. Given early human civilization, I would not be surprised if this was the case.
This is a scam that dupes people to this day, and it dupes them in large numbers. It's doing a damn good job of psychologically enslaving society. This is a scam by intelligent people - possibly without any moral compass - that has grown out of control.
The cost to humanity has been devastating.
It forces people to believe in objective morality (such belief is deadly) and to believe in imaginary things, which is delusional by definition.
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