Do all religions exist solely to control the actions of people, by controlling their thoughts? Are all religions designed to erode the follower's connection to reality? Does the encoding of various belief structures make it easier to control that group? Can all religions be considered practicing sociocognitive warfare? Men are disturbed not by things that happen but by their opinions of the things that happen.. ~ Epictetus ~ Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened
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