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magicjay38 said:

Okay, Pariah. My position is Marxist. Religion is an institution used by the oppressors of the proletariate as an instrument of social control. Institutional Christianity in particular is is complicite in this oppression. Jealous of the power of their superiors, the Imperial Roman Government, they created a priestly cast. Priests became useful to the empire by bending their slave followers to the interests of the empire. Just as it does today. The institution serves keep people resigned to a life of quiet desperation.

What does Scripture or whoever have to say to rebut that position?



Anyone have an alternate version of reality? Or am I right?

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