/lit/ - Literature

>>13187600

love means cooperation, humans that evolved to cooperate killed off humans that couldn't work together. hatred brings division and strife.

forgiveness doesn't mean to be a little bitch, but at the same time you can't be fucking someone up for some petty shit they did to you ten years ago.
In ancient times there were blood feuds and family feuds, ancient grudges that kept the world stuck in the dark ages. A never ending cycle of revenge.

A god of excessive judgement and guilt might have kept order in ancient times when everyone was goat and sheep herders, but as civilization progressed and cities were built up, people lived in closer and closer quarters and had to learn to get along and cooperate.

With the destruction of the priesthood and temple by the Romans, the religion lost ultimate power over the state and the government.....

This is why Catholicism brought about the Dark Ages, because once again a religion gained ultimate state power. In a similar way to the Jews, the Catholics took money from the population, whereas the Jews took money and also animal sacrifices.
The reinstatement of a population of brainwashed people who gave resources to the priest class made it so that the only people who could read were the priests.

So when we think, "God is judgement, I am guilty and must monetarily compensate the church to appease his anger" The dark ages are brought about when a religion becomes a strong Theocracy. just look at how repressed many Muslim nations are.

When "God is Love" is in the peoples minds, and we are all to try and "Love your neighbor as yourself" we can cooperate with each other instead of devolving into witch-hunt dark-age bullshit where we all accuse each other of "sin"