Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2 months ago | Report Abuse

Religion has been exploited in numerous ways for personal and organizational gain, primarily through financial, political, and social manipulation. Leaders may exploit donations, sell religious items, or operate Ponzi schemes under the guise of faith. Politically, religion is used to legitimize power, enforce social control, and justify violence or persecution. Charismatic figures often cultivate a cult of personality, manipulating followers through miracle claims or promises of salvation. Religious institutions may exploit tax exemptions, misuse charitable donations, and suppress dissent through excommunication or emotional blackmail. Vulnerable populations, particularly those in crises, are often targeted by prosperity theology or false promises of spiritual healing. By fostering dependence, some religious movements consolidate power and wealth, often creating a system of fear and guilt to maintain control. These mechanisms highlight how religion can be co-opted for selfish aims, undermining its ethical and spiritual purposes.

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Posted by Shmed1960 > 2 months ago | Report Abuse

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Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2 months ago | Report Abuse

The concept of heaven as a state of eternal bliss is often rooted in the belief that one experiences profound joy, peace, and contentment. However, children must learn that from a scientific and neurological perspective, this idea faces significant challenges. The human experience of pleasure, joy, and emotional satisfaction is deeply tied to the brain's reward center, particularly the release and regulation of neurotransmitters like dopamine. Without these neurochemical processes, the ability to experience any feeling, including bliss, becomes impossible.

Dopamine is integral to how we experience pleasure and reward. When we achieve a goal, engage in enjoyable activities, or even anticipate something desirable, dopamine is released, activating the brain's reward pathways. This creates the sensations we associate with happiness, satisfaction, and well-being. If the brain were not intact or if dopamine were not active, the capacity to feel pleasure or any sensation would cease.

In the concept of heaven, the human body, including the brain, is often left behind in favor of a spiritual or ethereal existence. Yet, without the brain's biological machinery—the reward center, dopamine-driven processes, and other neural mechanisms—the very experience of bliss becomes a fallacy. There is no known mechanism outside the brain that could produce feelings of pleasure, and thus the idea of eternal bliss without a functioning reward system is inconsistent with our understanding of how emotions are generated.

In essence, the promise of heavenly bliss without the physical structures that produce feelings is problematic. Emotions, including happiness, are tied to biological systems that are intricately designed to respond to stimuli in the material world. To feel, one must have a brain capable of interpreting and processing those feelings. Without it, the idea of eternal happiness becomes a logical impossibility.

Posted by Balian de Ibelin > 2 months ago | Report Abuse

Gimme all your money and you will go to heaven sums up all the current con scams out there.

Variants include but not limited to: -

Gimme all your money, commit suicide [so that you dun disturb me enjoying your money] and you will go to heaven.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2 months ago | Report Abuse

Throughout history and into the modern era, unscrupulous individuals and groups have used it as a tool for exploitation. Whether by instilling fear, promising false hope, or claiming divine right, these manipulators have used religion to amass wealth, power, or control. Government, education minister and school are to be blamed for failing to help the naive children to understanding this darker side of religious history - as key to recognizing and preventing such exploitation today. What is the use of school then?

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