Religion & Ideaologies

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Do you ever think about religion & various ideaologies? Where they begin & how they were used throughout history?

Most ppl I know seem to just reflexively accept religion as if its always been here. They're unable to deconstruct & think critically to admit that the concept is man made & has been used to justify all sorts of acts of atrocity.

Or how about ideaologies that have, for centuries, been used to force the oppressed to accept their circumstances & make the oppressors/wrong doers seem RIGHT & 'justified'...you can see that in the way american history is taught in schools from k-12. Even I didnt get a real grasp of REAL history until college when i decided to minor in it.

Thoughts?
 
<< BUMP>> w/ some of the discussions on some news articles posted in EE over the last few days, I wanted to bring this topic back up for some discussion. Everyone, "christian" or not is encouraged to comment. This isnt an inquisition or anything...just a chance to discuss things that have been around/effected all of us & yet most ppl dont know the origin of some of this stuff.
 
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