yea. I think that a lot of religious people look back to the highly spiritual days and see it as being so positive and sin free.

I think it is exactly the opposite.

when i went through my history classes i truly got a wonderful insight into what religion is. It's a tool for those in power to extend there power.

Remember back in the day were if you committed a crime, and you were poor, they would make you hold a red hot pole. Your hands would burn and then be bandaged.

something like 1 week later they would remove the bandages.

if your hands were healed then god is showing that you are innocent.
if your hands were still healing, I think everyone’s were, then you were guilty

This system was only applied to the poor. A knight on the other hand if accused of ANYTHING even rape (was this even bad then...) murder.
he would swear on the bible that he is telling the truth. and he would be set free

because if he lied he would burn in hell. Sounds like a system that i would like if i was a knight