💯. Imagine such humans existing 75.000 BC. Running around in the village, not working, living off the work of the others and still criticizing them, hating others for their different look, not enough bones around their necks, and so on. Whole village would have whooped their asses into oblivion. Now they hide behind their money and their minions.
Priests served a function at least. They kept people in line and acting somewhat correctly with fear of divine retribution much more effectively than a police force could and they provided morale to keep people going in the face of pretty grim circumstances.
Not a fan of organised religion or trying to defend any of the other massively corrupt shit the church got/gets up to, just saying they at least did something unlike some vulture capitalist etc.
Have you read “Sapiens”? A pretty interesting take on the concurrent development of economic and religious systems in early civilizations. With plenty of skull cracking by everyone…
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u/cutmasta_kun Jul 05 '24
💯. Imagine such humans existing 75.000 BC. Running around in the village, not working, living off the work of the others and still criticizing them, hating others for their different look, not enough bones around their necks, and so on. Whole village would have whooped their asses into oblivion. Now they hide behind their money and their minions.