/lit/ - Literature

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The problem lies with esoteric and exoteric interpretations. Religions concerns themselves so much with the ethics of plebeians because somebody has to till the soil.

So yes, the elite of a given society do concern themselves with religion but in an esoteric form that relies on introspection (or navel-gazing) and exclusive rituals that separate them from their thralls. This is religion from a command position. But again, somebody has to till the soil, so in order for your rulers to have a bunch of religious ecstasy and other gay shit you need to enslave some of the population to bear the pain of living. In order for monks to enjoy constant delicacies in their monasteries and spend all day praying and fucking each other up the ass, somebody has to do the bitch work to feed everybody. Slavery is codified in every Abrahamic religion. Buddhists monks are literally NEETs who go around begging for rice so they can escape samsara on the backs of the commoners. Religion is all a grift and any spiritual or material advantages that arise from it must be understood as part of the draconian hierarchy it exists to reinforce.

Read Meslier.