Is religion (and was it only ever) a fantastic business plan, where they have cleverly?

[Nikonf5]

crossed most of the t's and dotted the i's so everything becomes a 'catch 22' situation by clever use of circular logic?
I wish I could come up with such an awesome creation, osmosis through indoctrination, once you are in the world is painted as such a dark place that you become fearful of letting go, members for life (a lot, too many). They have a rule book that is to be obeyed unless there are contradictions in which case you are encouraged to 'not take it literally'
Heads I win, tails you loose.
Do you think the people who started it were quite clever? I do.

 

[Eleutherios]

They've managed to take a collection of ancient mystical metaphyiscal myths to set your mind free and turn it around into one of the biggest traps ever.

The whole idea was to find the divinity within yourself by raising your consciousness, what they're doing keeps them trapped in the lower realms of consciousness, disconnected, which is what their hell myth is really all about.

 

[Incredibly Credible]

"Cleverly"? What are you on man?! Believing in something that simply cannot POSSIBLY exist in a physical universe is not clever.

So if you cross out cleverly, then you have hit it straight between the eyes.

 

[Exodiafinder]

Religion has always been true. I find it hard to believe that there are people that went to school and still don't believe in God.