Napoleon and The USE of Religion

 

People practicing  religion - Christian or whatever - get pleasure in associating with a special community, that welcomes them as "one of us". They look at history and cultural trends and feel a bond that enriches their life. However, that doesn't mean that they are religious in the Biblical sense that they've read, understood and agree with EVERYTHING in The Bible. To them religion isn't a question of teachings, but of traditions and a church that makes it possible for people to "be together" in the "safety" of an assumed equality. 

Most of them may not even understand the meaning of what Naploen said although it's common knowledge to those who don't have any affiliation with a church-community. Religion is a means of power because it upholds the system as it is in a very smart manner: Those who are repressed do the repression themselves as they don't fight it in the hope of getting their reward after death. Matthew 20:16: "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen."

A very, very ingenuous system even though the Matthew-quote may not have been read the way it was said. Those who need consolation for awful lives will take the first part of it at face-value: My oppressors or even tormentors are being punished after death (Hail, that lovely HELL!!!!!!) while I  shall "sit by the side of Jesus" in glory and supreme happiness.  

 

Hitler and other Nazi scumbags visiting the grave of Napoleon in 1940

Napoleon became the Emperor of France, but in reality he was more like a dictator who gained power because no one stopped him.

Yes, even Napoleon was defeated, just like most of those "strong men" of our time.

Just like most of them he too ended up beaten and robbed of the power he had gained which, of course, was seen as an instance of "God's Will" by those religious people he had mocked.

Religion is what the sense of "Shame" is to moral, but non-religions people: It's the teacher within as well as the inherited and built-in guardsman that keeps us from behaving "badly" ....