Reply #10: Religion, for the purposes of our discussion [View All]

[Fovea]

is a system of social control.

There is already something else, as it were, because our society has multiple interlocking systems.

consumer debt, social studies as taught in public school, contraband punishment,
nationalism.

these are all systems of social control.

I believe the gold standard of which is Marijuana prohibition.
It has absolutely no raison d'etre based on other policies regarding intoxicants.
It is there to see how much brutal stupidity we will unquestioningly accept.