>>777241religion is a political tool for controlling people. it literally doesn't matter whether religoids realize this and just play along, or whether they sincerely believe. At the end of the day, it's a political tool. And the crazy part is no one single human invented it with ulterior motives necessarily. Like a religion can be founded entirely out of the organic practices of a group of people, and come to take on a life of its own as it evolves over the generation, culminating in a global system with billions of adherents, most of whom sincerely believe its precepts.