Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "The Occult #324: The Divine Importance Fallacy and Modern Sociopolitics" video.

  1. We have the same gullible and weak-minded public today, as was then. They either worship the state, or a cult of today, as they did the demigods, who were really ancient deified kings from long ago. In other words, the public worships authority and authority figures, and will believe anything that comes from them. They have no critical thinking skills, even when their god or goddess is caught in a bare-faced lie. Once one truly studies the origins of both religion and civilization, many end up becoming agnostic like myself. You find that all of it is based upon man, his charades, and beliefs, as well as how a handful of men took advantage of those beliefs to rule over the masses. It's one huge con.
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  2.  @scrotiemcb5858  Oh, I still give religion its good points, which was mainly spreading the moral law, and keeping the laity law abiding. In reality, it was the official propaganda arm of the ruling aristocracy, who had a symbiotic relationship with them. Even the politicos of the Old Right had seen this over what they knew was coming due to the industrial revolution, and especially the conservative left who sided with them. "Instead, they rejected industrial capitalism and the culture it produced. In I'll Take My Stand they called for a return to the small-scale economy of rural America as a means to preserve the cultural amenities of the society they knew. Ransom and Tate believed that only by arresting the progress of industrial capitalism and its imperatives of science and efficiency could a social order capable of fostering and validating humane values and traditional religious faith be preserved. Skeptical and unorthodox themselves, they admired the capacity of orthodox religion to provide surety in life."__Paul V Murphy Politicos, and those in the know, have always realized this. I believe that religion was called the "opium of the people" by Marx, which he wanted to destroy. Of course, he wished for a totally amoral and corrupt society as well, which is something that I don't. Dr. David Starkey called much of it the "noble lie" to be used to appease the masses.
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  3. It's the same gullible and weak-minded public today, as was then. They either worship the state or a cult of today, as they did the demigods, who were really ancient deified kings from long ago. In other words, they worship authority, and authority figures, and believe anything that comes from them. They have no critical thinking skills, even when their god or goddess is caught in a bare-faced lie.
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