There's a big difference between being calmed
by the concept of religion and being made compliant
or complicit by it.
The church teaches demurity and selflessness so
that they can more easily sway folks and get away
with their personal evils. (Saying you're spiritual and
chaste is far different from actually practicing it.)
'Submissiveness' is not a spiritual path, but rather
a means of furthering the hierarchy.
Your humility is for the benefit of the institution,
not the individual.
It's not coincidence that the wealthy, the powerful,
and the male created religion as a means of keeping
radicals, the poor, women, gays, slaves, and others
from questioning the injustice, the hardship, the
inhumanity of conditions in this world.
And some things never change.
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