Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 on Nostr: Organized religion only exists to be a cover for power and authority that would ...

Organized religion only exists to be a cover for power and authority that would otherwise be much harder to exert. You are less likely to riot during a famine if they make temperance a status symbol. Starving is now an opportunity to show devotion to God, getting upset by the famine implies you care more about eating than pleasing God, and people usually become malnourished well before they'd riot.

That has always been it's purpose.