Religion has always been a tool for oppressing sections of people so that the oppressors can uphold their own interests easily. In our own country, some clever men ( men , and not women) invented a supernatural creature in order to establish the caste system which was highly oppressive for the vast majority of people. A small minority became the most powerful people who controlled gods, the scriptures (rubrics and canons as well as truths), politics by subordinating the kings and their warriors, and everybody else. From the time Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire, it ceased to be a religion of love and compassion. Thousands of people were eliminated labelled as heretics, witches, pagans, and so on. Islam has its own jihads of all sorts which oppress and even eliminate whole sections of people. Connected with the oppressor role of religion are the material benefits it brings. The priestly classes always enjoyed infinite benefits. The Brahmins
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