Religion Is For People Who Need Support
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Thing is though if you look what it tried, and achieved, for thousands of years was to give people moral values to live by:
Yes, I know some of the wacky ones are designed by evil-minded individuals but the main stream ones have all been hijacked by evil-minded individuals. How many kiddie-fiddling priests? How many suicide bombers? But who would argue that thou shall not kill is a bad thing?
Anyway, we now have a new religion and most of us are firm believers, worshipping most Saturdays and Sundays, or sometimes in the evening after work. It's called consumerism and the name of the game is to consume and purchase as much as you can whilst you are on The Earth. Forget everyone else, it's you that matters and don't forget the more expensive the label the better; the more things you own, the further up the hierarchy you are. The main cathedral in the North West is called The Trafford Centre and you can't get in the car parks at the weekend for the masses trying to pay homage. Even when you are sat at home you read the Holy Argos catalogue or watch the religious broadcasts on the TV:
- "Thou shall not kill, steal"
- "Thou shall honour thy parents"
- "Thou shall not covet thy neighbour's wife"

- "…Blah blah is sponsored by..."
- "You need to buy this; it will make you feel good about yourself and you too will smile"
Eggs are strong symbols in paganism, as is the hare which now has shorter legs and is called the Easter bunny.
So, there you go you've hijacked a religion!
Fast forward a couple of thousand years and the new "Cardinals", the CEO of Buy Our Goods Ltd, says "Why don't we hijack the old religious symbols pretend they are our own get people to buy loads of crap and they can still have their festivals. Everyone's a winner."
The only problem is that the morals that were taught from the good book of the old religions have now been replaced by "Me first!"' morals that people get from Small (minded) Brother and soaps like Argumentative Enders and Confrontation Street.
Religion is a load of random bits of ink on a page it isn't evil or wrong. People are evil.
Here endeth today's sermon!