Religion as a strategy (#954)

No time for fluff pieces lately since there is so much disingenuous and cowardly verbal noise coming from elected officials in our society. What is it that can make otherwise decent human beings into callous condescending ingrates. Not a spiritualism that is personal, but a tie with organized religion and it's dogma. Yes, you read me right, organized religion. Belief systems are around because people have fear about what this life is all about. They think that if religion is true it will help keep them safe from what they don't know or don't want to know. A prejudice about how life should be is promoted in religious circles and these illusions of behavior are touted as the only acceptable means for humans to act. it is in this acceptable behavior, powers that be, may influence otherwise economically and politically knowledgeable people to throw away that common sense in order to instill some opinionated way of behavior. In short, using human behavior by others as an ideal of greater importance than one's own economic and political best interest. The wedge of deceit. Once the idea of religion, which is again a chosen belief system, not an absolute, is elevated to above all else it is easy to see how manipulators can use this to sway citizens from the logic of economics and politics to an illogical agreement associated with religious behavior. It is astounding to me that this little mind trick, and know for sure it is a trick, has been effective. This is why I think our society is in need of higher education. We are too easily swayed through fear to believe that some mysticism or magic is greater than human logic, with reason and analysis. My simple understanding today is that only nothing can be created from nothing. You have to have something to create something else. Nowhere in the Universe or any of this known existence has anything ever been created from nothing. This I would ask the religious manipulators to prove to me at anytime. It can't be proven therefore, logic and the best of our human instincts is our real hope for the future.