'Fat Boy' Onen has been speaking in the UK of his fight against superstition and

[Thorne]

I guess a lot of Christians need an evil power to keep people in place

If they didn't invent an evil power that fights against their gods, they'd have to admit that their gods aren't all that good after all.

Individual religions are good for some, and no problem for others.

I think history shows us that every religion ultimately devolves into dogma and rigid disciplines. They split into two or more groups when one side thinks they aren't being dogmatic enough. They are, IMO, essentially bad. Individual FAITH is good, maybe, as long as you don't deny reality with your faith.

[thir]

If they didn't invent an evil power that fights against their gods, they'd have to admit that their gods aren't all that good after all.

I think the 'good' gods are recent - for a given value of recent - and they are supposed to have a reason for everything, right? But many gods were - and are- simply forces. Not specifically good or bad, just there and very powerful.

I think history shows us that every religion ultimately devolves into dogma and rigid disciplines. They split into two or more groups when one side thinks they aren't being dogmatic enough. They are, IMO, essentially bad. Individual FAITH is good, maybe, as long as you don't deny reality with your faith.

I am trying to come up with a religion that hasn't gone that way..Hinduism? Buddism?