I look at religions essentially as disguised empires, because that' s how they started out.  It' s all about power. 
     Because of this, most religions resort to sleazy tactics to conserve their numbers.  Look at marriage, marriage is an institution created to get a couple to stay together and keep fucking to produce the most children possible under a certain religion.  In christianity babies are baptized, which is the empires way of claiming a new soldier.  That' s why religions didn' t support divorce initially, they don' t want people to be single or wasting time finding another mate.  It' s also why most religions don' t appreciate gays, they' re just not helping their numbers.    
  Look at Islam and Judaism, those two have been at war with eachother since forever.  It' s not even the countries that matter, it' s the religions that are pitted against eachother.  Actually I would say a lot of the worst wars we' ve seen on this planet were due to religious hatred.   
           I understand why it was needed back then but now religion in the majority of the world have no real power, all they bring are lies, ignorance and hatred.    
  -No offence to anyone here intended- 
                    
< Message edited by Agent Ghost -- 17 Mar 07 3:26:11  >