How Human Parasites Dupe Us By Running Out Our Clock
The frauds of religion and capitalism
We have some freedom to develop our personal potential. We get to decide how we want to use our capacities and our limited time. Some are more fortunate than others: they have more doors open and opportunities to explore.
Doors can also close for us if we’re unlucky. Perhaps we’re met with a natural disaster: our house might be struck by a tornado, or we might be afflicted with a disease. We work around these additional constraints imposed on us by nature’s indifference to our welfare. Our bad choices can further reduce our options, and we’ll struggle to work around those self-imposed constraints, to improve our situation and to avoid regrets.
But there are more nefarious constraints devised by crafty predators and parasites. Arguably, the fruit of the most common parasites has plagued civilization for thousands of years, this being organized religion.
The Fraud of Organized Religion
Whatever benefits religion brings are like the illusory hopes of the victim of a con. A proficient con artist can prolong the victim’s reckoning by maintaining the illusion that this victim hasn’t been exploited and robbed. The fraudster keeps lying and manipulating the victim to preserve the…
