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Bars of Iron and Religious Entrapment

The three major religious systems have many things in common and the one that stands out the most is the entrapment that keeps their communities together and their teachings dominant.
Their overall success depends on the two opposing forces used in their doctrines.
The first is heaven, a place of great reward and peace for all eternity.
The other is hell where it is claimed that one will burn forever in eternal fire.
In the times before knowledge and evidence to the contrary the heavenly kingdom was perceived as a place of great beauty and a reflection of earth.
Anthropology research demonstrates this is still the case in many societies and is particularly true in religion.
Archaeology shows that this type of thinking motivated societies where kings and a hierarchy of gods is evident.
The king was deemed to be the next god in waiting and after death he became the Father God in heaven where he could reward those who died for him or served in other capacities.
The best examples of this are in Egyptian and Mayan mortuary practices.
In both cultures the king was obviously considered the staple food of the country.
In Egypt he is portrayed as wheat as symbolised in tombs and on his sarcophagus.
In the Mayan case he bears the image of corn, the main food of that society.
In both cases he is the Savior God who is deemed the keeper of the keys.
In that role he ca open the gates of heaven to allow his people to enter while he is portrayed as the married consort of the Mother God or Sun.
During the time of the Roman Empire the religion of Constantine, i.
e the Roman Catholic Church, could not escape from these 'norms'.
He altered the trend towards a living 'son-of-god' being always the next king by nominating Jesus Christ as the one and only Savior.
The death of that person was purposed to remove sin from the world and to capture the imagination of his audience.
Something doesn't fit, however, as according to that religion's doctrine people still sin and require the power of the church to save them.
While the prophet is titled the 'Prince of Peace' there have been numerous wars and acts of crimes against humanity conducted in his name.
Although we are told his name no one has yet put a name to the Father God, and for good reasons.
No one knows it because in ancient religions he was always changing with each new king who went up there.
Faith systems that followed the establishment of that organisation in 325 AD also nominated a prophet to teach them the way to get to heaven.
By praying to the prophet people think that he has the keys to open the gates and that is the pope's role as well.
The latter supposedly speaks for Jesus Christ and is a crowned king in the Vatican.
Through these tricks the hierarchy maintains power because it is thought by the followers that they can speak for the divine.
To ignore this and to go against their laws will supposedly drive people to hell.
Together these two strings pull people into line and prevent their escape from the bars of iron that hold them firmly.
People are sheep and the majority simply follow the leader rather than think for themselves.
It takes a huge wrench to force them out of the prison in which they reside.
That jail is composed of nothing more than their imagination and the lies they believe.
They are buried in fear by clever manipulation and the dogmatic attitudes engaged in by their societies.
Where a religion rules a state then this scenario is all-powerful.
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