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

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Thu Oct 29 23:15:34 UTC 2009


Then you have read the book ?


> 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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