Religion: Controller

Religion is a controler

In my opinion the original purpose of all religions was to "control" people's lives in order to make it and the world a better lace. One of my favorite examples of this is hinduism (probably because being hindu, i know the most about it) There is a common misconception that hindu's don't eat cows because of some random god. Of course that is the religious reason but for me there is a much better reason. Back when hinduism was still developing, cows were a very important farm animal and provided people with many things such as power to plow the farms, pull the waterwheel, the cow chips were used for fuel and making huts. Also, the cows provided milk. All of this added up to a lot from one cow. The problem was that when people ate the cows, they lost all of these things that a cow could offer in exchange for only meat. That's where hinduism stepped in and decided to stop killing its cows. Of course they couldn't just say these facts and expect people to follow it. I mean how many of us follow what the facts tell us from science. Instead, they used religious stories as propaganda for not eating beef. People were more concerned about the religious aspect and so they didn't eat cows.

There are countless examples of this in a lot of religions. For example, all of the rayers in Hinduism are to involve all of the lower class in religion and learning, I have already talked about the caste system, also the meditation and the yoga, especially those to the sun gods, are to keep people in shape and make them exercise before breakfast as they are supposed to be done 1st thing. The mass religious events are social gatherings and used as oppurtunities to meet up with other people.

Even in christianity Islam and Judaism there are many examples of control. All three holy books help promote literacy among everyone. the Adam and Eve story is to encourage women not to have have sex......(think about the snake). THe mass at church is to socialize again. Islam ≠ idols becuase bedouin farmers couldn't really afford them (still rough theory). The list goes on and on. I will add to it as I think of new ones.