宗教——一种控制大众的复杂策略

Gurevitz M
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自早期历史以来,占据人们思想的事情之一是对未知和死亡的恐惧,这很可能引发了对一个光顾的超级大国的需求,即上帝。对周围奇观的有限了解,生存的艰难,以及拒绝遵从我们相对较短的寿命,可能促使了这种需求,这种需求随着部落之间日益增长的敌意和新兴文明之间争夺领土、资源和领导权而加剧。虽然体力一直是人类斗争的主导因素(动物之间也是如此),但发达的大脑和语言交流为聪明的个人和少数人提供了一个额外的强大工具,用来控制无知、恐惧的大众。这些人(如萨满、先知、牧师、僧侣、狂狗、伊斯兰传教士)在说服观众相信他们有能力向“天上的守护神”上帝传达祈祷和请求时,实际上构成了一个新的地位,“神圣的调解人”,从这个地位出发,以一个不寻常的个人为基础,开辟了建立一个新的宗教运动的道路。为了认可自己的神圣地位,这些人巧妙地将世界的创造(至今仍未解决的问题)归于上帝,并形成了一种虚拟现实,伴随着仪式吸引了大众。他们利用人们对一个高高在上的超级大国的需求,建立了一种宗教,为大众日益增长的好奇心、有限的科学知识和精神需求提供了“答案”,同时也获得了优势,促进了自己的富足和财富。人们现在不仅有了一个可以依靠的上帝,被圣化的中介人还进一步加强了他们的地位,他们用一整套命令(做什么和不做什么)和崇拜(包括祈祷和仪式)组成了社会和宗教规则,旨在取悦上帝,获得他的怜悯和支持。在管理敬拜时,这些中保利用人们惊人的顺从来满足他们的精神需求,因此他们控制了群众。
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Religion - A Sophisticated Strategy to Gain Control Over the Masses
Among matters that occupy the mind of people since early history are fears of the unknown and death that have most likely triggered the need for a patronizing superpower, namely, God. Limited understanding of surrounding wonders, hard survival, and refusal to comply with our relatively short life span have probably prompted this need, which intensified with growing hostility among tribes and rising civilizations fighting over territory, resources and leadership. Although physical power has always been a dominating factor in these human struggles (as is among animals), the developed brain and verbal communication provided an additional powerful tool used by smart individuals and minorities to gain control over ignorant, frightened masses. In convincing the audience about their ability to convey prayers and requests to the ‘heavenly patron’, God, these people (e.g., Shamans, Prophets, Priests, Monks, Rabies, Islamic preachers) have actually constituted a new status, ‘sanctified mediators’, from which the road to establishment of a new religious movement, based on an unusual individual, was paved. To ratify their sacred status, these people cleverly attributed the creation of the world (still an unsolved issue) to God, and formed a virtual reality accompanied by rituals that attracted the masses. They exploited the need of people for a patronizing superpower to constitute a religion that provided ‘answers’ to the rising curiosity, limited scientific knowledge, and spiritual requirements of the masses, but also to gain superiority as well as advance their own abundance and wealth. Not only that people now had a God to lean on, the sanctified mediators further strengthened their status by composing social and religious rules with an entire set of orders (do and don’t do) and worships that included prayers and ceremonies, aiming to please God and obtain his mercy and support. In administrating the worships these mediators utilized the amazing obedience consent of people to satisfy their spiritual needs, and so they took control over the masses.
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