[PLUG-TALK] Show respect for other opinions...

[Mel Andres]

Michael Robinson wrote:.

> Again, all you had to do in most cases is repent.  And again, mostly
> kings and local officials were in control over the populace, not the
> Vatican.  Lastly, the Church has apologized for the excesses of the
> middle ages.
>
>   
This statement supports my opinion that religions were devised by men to 
control the population through guilt and fear. Beginning ever since the 
tribe warrior leader and shaman discovered they could control the rest 
more effectively working together. And by the way, often the spiritual 
leader, medicine men/women were gay and not shunned or disrespected in 
any way. If anything they were considered special because God(s) created 
them differently. Religion I think, took it further by setting you up to 
fail in the first place.

Mel