Religions are essentially collections of stories about the latter method
Religions are artificial shortcuts to "knowledge" and excellent method to neutralize congenital human curiosity. If you can't comprehend it, fake it. They all offer explanations of various phenomena by using familiar human memes (fathers, mothers, children, birth, death.) It works most of the time. The major difference between politics and religion is that politics is streamlined, it doesn't count on the internal consistency (and related effort to grasp it) but instead uses (via media) brute force of repetition. It all boils down to getting masses to farm out the inquisitivness and then servicing it. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com