Yes and everything else churches tell you to do.

A mix between that, and total ignorance.

Yep. Christianity is one of the most impressive scams ever perpetrated.

Well at the time of it'd creation, it was one scam. Now it something completely different. Notice how all for profit Christian churches are lead by republicans and Republicans are the ones perpetrating most of the financial conspiracies in America right now? That's what got me thinking about this. Now we have millions of brainwashed republicans that are ok with the massive class inequalities because it's gods will that the ministers and 1%ers are wealthy and that they are not. America's Christian elite are just loving it.

Churches don't tell people what to do. If they did nobody would attend. I have yet to hear anybody preach a sermon on 'thou shall not'

I'm convinced you know absolutely nothing about how churches function, or what goes on inside. FYI, the only two commandments are love God and love your neighbor. That's it no addendum's we're having a Potluck next Sunday after services. How are you doing? Can I help you with your chores, visit you at the hospital, in jail, or cut your grass while you're out of town?

I'm absolutely stunned every time some angry know it all spouts something, which sounds so silly and strange to people who do go to church.

I think talk radio difuses anger better than anything. People just talk about stuff, vote, and nothing happens. It allows them to blow off steam, without doing anything.

It's a thought terminating cliche. Secular popular version is they say "it is what it is".

When your boss gives you real shit news he always finishes with either "don't take it personal" or "we are trying to run a business".

The last time I heard it when it really got me down was some journalist ran down the green-eyed Afghan National Geographic cover girl who was living in a refugee camp in Pakistan because somebody (they did not report if it was Taliban or Northern Alliance or Pakistani or Americans as I recall) demolished her whole village and she was very sick with asthma and they asked her if she was bitter or what and she said "it is God's will".

Duh.

No i think its a remenant from a time in which the roman government truely did want to subdue the citizenry (specifically jews turned christian) with a pacifist figure. What better than a pacifist jew to idoloze. Even if it leads to your death you're dying for a noble albeit erroneous cause.

You get it.

For those interested, looked into the Flavian's of Rome.

That's one very plausible theory that I've heard before

Yup. All to keep the masses thinking they're powerless and put responsibility for their lives in someone/something elses hands.

not really, its just to add emphasis to a point. take basically every war fought for religious reasons for example. althoigh maybe those arent sperate issues entirely

You got the answer wrong. It's "Yes! Everything about religion/church was, is, and always will be pure evil incarnate!".

absolutely

Well done, you figured out the point of religion.

No, it's to create strong nation-states with solid social cohesion.