[PLUG-TALK] Religion is not bad...

Michael Robinson plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Thu Oct 29 22:59:55 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:11 -0700, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> Just finished a Sci-Fi paperback The Emancipator Book 1 by Ray Aldridge
> the part that fits this little discourse is how a 'galactic' empire kept
> and breed slave on many planets.
> 
> It fit my view and experience of organized western religion to the tee.
> 
> Basically they would show up cloaked, and become the 'gods' to these
> primitive to say earth equivalent of the medieval time. Once they became
> the omnipotent god(s) they would eliminate anyone who started to
> question anything.
> 
> It fits this discussion to the tee !
> 
> Well worth the 99cents and the time on MAX ...
> 
> -pete
Sounds like Babylon 5 to me.  No it doesn't fit this discussion at all.
Religion is not something that some cloaked figures came up with and
dropped on people unless you want to talk about mythology which is a
totally different beast.




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