After her flippant reply to constituents’ worries about health care and food assistance cuts, Sen. Joni Ernst followed up with a brazen video filmed in a cemetery.
After her flippant reply to constituents’ worries about health care and food assistance cuts, Sen. Joni Ernst followed up with a brazen video filmed in a cemetery.
Religion has always been a way to convince the poor to die for the rich. “Your rewards will come in the next life. Please kill yourself working.”
Even Buddhism has the philosophy of suffering in this life will be repaid in the next. Fuck all that shit. There’s no fucking reward, just death. Make sure you don’t die carrying someone else’s debt.
Not all Buddhism. Zen Buddhism, for example, is very clear that it’s all about how you live right now, not later, and has nothing to do with reincarnation myths. Unfortunately, with Buddhism, Christianity and all religions, the dumber varieties tend to be the loudest and most popular.
The most promoted
Then let’s say more specifically, religions promoted and encouraged by the rich and powerful. The ones who whip the mob into a frenzy and then are like, “rah rah! You go guys! I’ll be right behind you, I just have to wash my grass first. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Yeah, don’t wait up for me.”
Yeah; for any faith system, you’ll get someone attempting to exploit it to maintain their wealth and power.
Eventually, the entire underlying belief structure that’s usually based on something real becomes overlaid with a prescriptive ideology designed to help a small group of people get their way.