Quote Originally Posted by YouAintKnow
Religion is just politics. Take the Catholic church for example...
They make people eat, breathe, and sleep their doctrines. They give vivid descriptions of heaven and hell, instilling a fear into followers that if they doubt anything that the church says that God will smite them into a fiery pit where they will rot forever. This is their perfect fall back system to keep people going to church and donating their money. I'm really high right now, but hopefully this makes sense.
They used to do that, but they're a bit more rational now. Official Church teaching is actually that heaven and hell are states of the soul after the body dies, not actual places. Not that I'm a Catholic, at least not anymore.

Religion is like a dummy function that a computer programmer puts into a class to keep it from crashing. Its purpose is just to return any old simple answer; as long as the program keeps running without incident, it serves its purpose. In a case of insufficient processing power, a more complicated answer might crash the system, and we can't have that!