Controlling people in 3 easy steps.

[Lord Kenneth]

1. Tell them you should do what and live how the Lord wants them to do.

2. Be the source of what the Lord "wants them to do".

3. Tell them the Lord wants them to do whatever you want them to do.

Rinse and repeat.

[Yahweh]

1. Begin brainwashing from early in life

2. Never cease brainwashing, your slaves--er followers might wander away or possibly question the accuracy of your teachings.

3. If for any reason a follower strays, find him, hurt him, councel/brainwash for his heathenistic Pagan ways!

[Lord Emsworth]

Originally posted by Lord Kenneth
1. Tell them you should do what and live how the Lord wants them to do.

2. Be the source of what the Lord "wants them to do".

3. Tell them the Lord wants them to do whatever you want them to do.

Rinse and repeat.

The only problem I see is that to be the source you will have to have gone through the three steps yourself. If not, it is possible that you do not have the right 'zeal' to put other people through the three steps and in order to control them.

[Lord Kenneth]

Exactly, that's why religious is like a mental virus.

But that very method, or a similar type of it, is what usually starts religions off, is it not?

[Suddenly]

Originally posted by Lord Kenneth
Exactly, that's why religious is like a mental virus.

But that very method, or a similar type of it, is what usually starts religions off, is it not?


That or a natural reaction to the absurdity of existence and cold hard reality. Human beings hate not knowing, why not make something up, bonus that that made up stuff gets around not only questions of origin but what happens after death.

Isn't the problem more with the fact that once you allow "faith" as a basis for belief in anything, that then you are vulnerable to manipulation on that basis?

I just think you may be putting the cart before the horse when you say religion is created to be a method of control, rather than religion being a natural human reaction to the unkown which can be used as a method of control.

[RSLancastr]

You forgot how to keep it going:

Tell your followers that birth control and masturbation are sins.

[Lord Kenneth]

Originally posted by Suddenly



That or a natural reaction to the absurdity of existence and cold hard reality. Human beings hate not knowing, why not make something up, bonus that that made up stuff gets around not only questions of origin but what happens after death.

Isn't the problem more with the fact that once you allow "faith" as a basis for belief in anything, that then you are vulnerable to manipulation on that basis?

I just think you may be putting the cart before the horse when you say religion is created to be a method of control, rather than religion being a natural human reaction to the unkown which can be used as a method of control.

A religion could be started for any number of reasons, we've each listed one of them.

[elliotfc]

Your sarcasm is so predictable and pathetic that you are just another type of controlled people.

People who do not think like you exist. Can you control yourself from poking them with a stick? No, the urge is too strong. So you are controlled by your immature passions. We all have to be controlled by something.

-Elliot