Religion is a dangerous tool.
It only takes one power hungry preacher to rise in the ranks and all of a sudden,you have no religion just a feudal system.
Read Pillars of the Earth.
Religion also uses a book written by men to show the word of god.
Very suss.
Thankfully the more brutal aspects have been watered down in the west.
But people are still stoned in the middle East.
Interpretation is 9 tenths of the law.
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