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Sky Jewels

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7. Religion requires isolation to really thrive.

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 01:19 PM

Mar 2024

It was much easier to convince the peasants that a cruel male "god" and his "son" were watching over them in, say, medieval times, when everyone in a village went to the same church and never heard a word that these silly stories might not be true.

With the internet, that isolation is blown to bits. People can compare notes and admit to one another that the emperor is buck nekkid.

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