happydolphin on 09 May 2013
| Scoobes said:
It's harder to manipulate people into doing violent acts through disbelief whereas it's easier to manipulate people if you can make them believe they're doing it for a greater power/good. That's what I meant by tool. In this respect any belief system is more powerful a tool than a lack of belief. |
What about eugenics?
The power of belief is a force to be reckoned with, it can be powerful for good and very powerful for bad. The people who followed Hitler believed in the greatness of their race, whether it was under a veil of divinity or not, the point was that they held an ideal and it drove the nation towards some of the greatest atrocities our world has seen.
The power of belief need not require religion.
