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Author: anon7571anon7571 Date: May 28, 2008 21:23
> On May 28, 3:46 pm, "anon7571" anon.org> wrote:>>> Religion is something created by people to control other people.
>>> People are not infallible, and preachers and pastors are no different,
>>> because they're just that; people.
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>> It may have been genuine at creation time, who knows, but when it gains
>> popularity it becomes political and thus corrupt. The idea of religion is
>> good, meaning initially "religare" - to link back with the source, but
>> what
>> we, humans, do of it is something else.
>>
>> Even relatively non-authoritarian religions such as Buddhism can become
>> corrupt just out of human stupidity. I recounted already the story that
>> in
>> Cambodia (and possible in other countries but that's where I saw it)
>> people
>> keeps loads of small birds in cages so that others can free them ($1
>> each)
>> and thus make a good karmic action, because apparently Buddha said it's
>> good
>> karma to free up a bird - and thus they catch and hold prisoners hundreds
>> of
>> birds based no that statement - how idiotic is that?
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> Definitely idiotic.
> Not to defend their action, but I guess the poor people who did it may
> not be aware of the teaching or not following it, except to think of
> earning a little money for their family.
Of course they are aware - that's the very reason they do it, because it's
good karma to free a bird, they know about this teaching very well. They
would no reason otherwise to go through the whole motion.
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