Letters to the Editor
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tool of control
I don't believe religion is a tool to contemplate the divine so much as it's useful for establishing a power and control pecking order. It is particularly useful in convincing males that God gave them permission to dominate and sexually abuse women. Afterall, didn't Mohammed take a nine year old as a wife? That means that all good muslims can boink nine year olds and it isn't abuse, it is God's will. And women are put on earth to be slaves to men, according to Judaism. And submissive to men, according to Christianity. I extremely attended a Christian church were female inferiority was relentlessly insisted on. Every sermon.
I'd rephrase this to mean that all animals, ape or human, want to instill a pecking order. Humans are just cunning in that they use God to justify kicking down half of the population. Clever and devious and typical of animals.