#20 BGLass | 2012-04-21 07:40
"....we are going to need some institution with the staying power of the Catholic Church.
I'm not Cahtolic, but undersand Bob converted. Maybe he's learned something?...."
Bob converted? He seems southern baptist, but goes to show "conversions" are always in name only. You simply can't really become what you aren't. You can only say 'I had that influence, then sought this other influence..." Your thinking will be informed by previous influences, and to deny this Reality is non-Bugs.
The catholic church killed a lot of people in tribunals. Imo, this is the main reason they achieved traction. But they have seemingly had to get ever more "dumbed down" populations, in the third world, who best receives the message christianity became (the poor inherit everything)--- Hinduism, according to Pew, attracts highest IQ group, and is also associated with caste system. Trauma-based conditioning, inquisitions, killing anyone in disagreement, solidified the catholic establishment.
It's effective, but handled that way, you live that way. Other prices are paid, in terms of the way society works, how people are conditioned and acclimated to scarcity life, fear, learning to crave "expert" top-down bureaucracy to tell them how to think, the rule of men in dresses, and so on.
Seems it's had "staying power," but the same people haven't stayed, in terms of demographic.
If you do it that way, which is what I thought Bob was saying don't do, you can wind up with a population that can't think, (after killing people for heresy, which is thinking from another point of view).