Established Religions As Social Operating Systems

As touched upon in 'Spirituality And Established Religion' the latter have served through history predominantly as social operating systems. With their set of defined values they have enabled social structures beyond the level of tribal or clan loyalty laying the ground for increasingly larger political structures from the polytheistic empires of old to the various 'devinely sanctioned' monotheistic kingdoms and empires of our history.

In that process whatever true spiritual core these religions originally had, was largely corrupted and they became primarily the instrument to control the mind of the masses to submit themselves to the respective power structures. Besides teaching obedience and inferiority to the masses, they have been and are used until today as ideal tools for the Control Structure to 'Divde and Rule' populations, pitting one religion or different factions of a religion against the other in innumerable 'Religious Wars'.

The latestest Versions of these Operating Systems are aiming to remove the pesky remnants of true spirituality in these religions by propagating their 'modern' variants i.e. ideologies of various kinds like nationalism or communism.