A Genius, the Only True Homo Sapiens, Is the Only Supernatural Being
Religion is not responsible for those wars, even those thrill-killings, like the jihad, waged in the name of religion. Religion is responsible, though, for claiming to bring peace and harmony and being incapable of doing anything that it would be able to do if it had a supernatural power on its side. in fact, it is also responsible for creating a cowardly escapist pacifism that let predatory races overrun its territories. As Gibbon proved, the adoption of weakling Christianity caused the Fall of the Roman Empire
. Third, it is responsible for the subhuman humanitarianism that influenced superior races to hand their colonies back to the savages. Fourth, it is responsible for thinking that natural resources and most of all, the superior human resources that give them any value, are just gifts from God. The backward Arabs have no right to their oil; it belongs to the advanced nations that were the only ones capable of giving the latent resources the developed value they have.
But that self-denial also comes from religion making people look for "God's representatives on Earth." So the secular theists deify the investors, instead of the inventors who created all their wealth. A superficial reading of Prometheus Bound makes it an insult to genius, because it claims that a god gave us every invention; the inventors, if recognized at all, were merely passive instruments who deserved no personal credit.
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