[PLUG-TALK] why religion is the root of all evil

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Jan 30 04:43:55 UTC 2007


On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Russ Johnson wrote:

> I do agree that organized religion has been the cause of almost every war
> ever fought by mankind. I believe that religion was an invention to
> control the masses.

Russ,

   That has been widely accepted for a long time. An interesting read on this
subject is William Golding's "Lord of the Flies"
<http://www.gerenser.com/lotf/>.

   I read it when it first came out and have remebered it since then.

Rich

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