Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 09/12/2024 09:33, D wrote:

I believe the phenomenon of religion has a common, personal "core",
and that after the original inspired founder was gone, the path to
using his teachings as a way to power starts.
 
Once it becomes institutionalized, all the deep, meaningful and
personal experiences get lost and you just get the ossified,
formalized remains left.

 
Was Moses a person in divine contact with God, or a very smart and
wise Jew who chipped away on some stone tablets, told the tribes
'these are Gods Words' and thereby created a morality that allowed
laws to be divine rather than man made?

What better way is there to get the "tribe" to not question the "moral
laws" than to convince them that their God explicitly deemed these so. 
Who are you, lowly tribe member, to question the "word of God".....

One just have to be successful in the process of selling of the 'laws'
as "divine from God" to the tribe members.