So I now have a complete fascination for people who start religions or become prophets, televangelists, etc. particularly people who have managed to do this before the internet. These are probably gifted speakers and master manipulators. To be able to create networks of thousands of people just from one person speaking their point of view of things, and to get those people to completely conform to what you want them to do is mind blowing to me. Especially in the days before the internet. Somebody like Jesus or Joseph Smith or Muhammad had to tell one person, then that one person had to tell, two other people (and of course what was preached would have changed from person to person), then those people tell other people and it just grows from there. I think a lot of these mainstream religions came about from luck as well (the people in those religions would of course say it god or whatever higher power). There’s probably been millions of people in history that have tried to come up with their own religion, and the ones we have now are the ones that actually stuck. What I think is a huge problem in this world is when that religion turns into a system of control where they expect others who don’t conform to their religion to conform to their way of thinking. What I love about Satanism is that it has a touch of anarchy, we are our own gods. That’s what sold me when I read the Satanic Bible. I can never be part of a system of control and manipulation outside of laws of my jurisdiction. Why add an extra layer of somebody trying to control you in your life? It amazes me how easily people are manipulated to do some really stupid things. Take Jonestown for example. That one man convinced hundreds of people to kill themselves all at once. And those people were probably otherwise really smart people that did all kinds of meaningful things in society. If they only had anarchy in their lives, then they would have lived. That’s why I don’t let people control me. People have to be able to trust their own judgement (I’m sure those Jonestown people had second thoughts before they drank the ol koolaid) and stand up for themselves and sometimes for others to do what they know in the core of their gut is the right thing to do. If I was in Jonestown on that day, I’d be knocking cups out of peoples hands saying “don’t listen to this stupid fuck!”. I could go on and on about the absolutely absurd shit people do in the name of religion. Oh then there’s the Muslims. Don’t get me started on those stupid extremist fucks. Those are the dumb ones of the bunch. To drive through a crowd of innocent people with a car full of explosives in the name of Muhammad and Jihad? What a stupid fuck thing to do! I can’t believe those dumb fucks actually think that they are going to be greeted with 101 virgins after they die when they do shit like that. Oh man, I could go on and on.
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