Some people will be horryfied at the implications of such a statement, but others will nod in agreement. However, as it is, the latter group may be the one which consists of more true believers than the first one. "How come?" you may ask, not believing your own ears. The first group are confirmedcChurch-goers, which the second one isn't, so how are they maybe more true believers than people who attend sermon after sermon? Well, to attend sermons and bleat religious hymns without much understanding of what they are about, is not a religious act, but it certainly is a social one: Religion is a way of bringing "order" to a society in the conformity-manner. "Bend your knees, bleat with me and remember the religious slurs of our community. When doing that, you shall be fine."
Those ardent Church-goers often seem to be beset by thought, ideas and even plans which not exactly equal devotions. The so-called main-religions - and maybe even others - have attained a suppression function in society that has nothing to do with spirituality or a deeply heart-felt wish of "getting close to God, whoever this particular deity is". On the contrary, it's more like a "I shall twist you arm until it breaks if you don't come to see eye to eye with me when it comes to religion". The arm-twister may even see him-/herself as a true believer, a "swordsman" for God which is totally crazy.
Yup, that's how it has been used for ages, but humans are the ones who enslave other humans, not "God" and not "Satan", who are nothing but figments of the imagination of numerous generations of humans. No matter what, it's interesting how these intricate fantasy-figures have grown into tools for suppression, but it makes one wonder at how it shall be in the future. The "2025-project" in the USA set out to turn a thoroughly Capitalistic society into what they see as Christian, but which we know is anything but that ....
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