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Quote by: Starboy There is a parable about this called the Emperor’s New Clothes. The moral of that story is that all is not well when there is mass psychosis. The problem is that people that decide to live in a dream world will still be affected by the real world and ignoring it will not make it go away. Also we will do better for ourselves if we admit to the reality of the real world and learn as much about it as we possibly can. |
Had everyone but the child truly been able to see the clothes, the child would have been considered insane and ignored. In the parable, reality is quite obvious. Otoh, whether or not there are supernatural forces effecting our lives has been debated for thousands of years and will be debated long after both you and I are dust. If religion is a mass psychosis, it would appear to be the normal state of the human species.
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It is not the good things of a religion that makes it undesirable. Even Hitler made the trains run on time and the Germans loved him greatly. Ignoring reality because there may be some nice things about your delusion is no way to live. It is also a lot easier for some maniac to control the population if they are already trained to ignore reality and follow any dang fool that tells them what they want to hear. Gee, sounds familiar.
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Humans ignore reality all the time, its how we survive. And the mythical nation of Harvey's Followers have nothing to do with hitler. Using him as an example brings up too many other isues that are irrelevent to the current discussion.
Its perfectly simple for a manaic to control any large population regardless of the situation, especially in a modern society where we get so much of our information from a television rather than actually seeing it. Very few dictators in the past century have risen to power through religious followings compared to those who have risen through military and political power grabs.