/lit/ - Literature

>>20979925
>People really died over this shit?
No, same as people never really died over tales about magical jewish rabbi who ended up on a stick because of disagreement with other rabbis but rose from the dead. In doesn't work this way.
There are certain methods of seizing power by armed group that involve brandishing religion or quasi-religious ideology as your banner.

Communist takeover in Russian Empire wasn't done by "workers". There wasn't a single working man in top brass, it was just terrorist organization consisting of cutthroats, psychos, dregs and foreign spooks, that fought and happened to win against other terrorist organizations for power, on the territory of nation that was essentially beheaded by February coup. All with foreign powers standing behind them of course. If anything actual workers fought against reds, because they already had experience of being bombarded with reds' preaching before, and were aware what will happen if those come to power.

None of actual agents with actual brains believe shit they preach, but it serves as identification method. Peons don't think, they just abide currently dominant power. But people who think, face choice - either repeat gibberish preached by it, or get killed. And if you repeat, you eventually get broken by it, no human being is fully immune to propaganda constantly being bashed against his skull by years. It's just subjugation system. It can't work if preaching side can't back it up with violence. And if anything, it's very bad for such system to run on truth and not on bullshit, because it defies entire purpose of its method.

>>14856230
Books on evolution. When you understand what women have been biologically programmed to be it's impossible to have any respect for them.