Imagine there's a movie, put out by Hollywood, that explains life, the universe, and everything. The movie seems fantastical, but at the end of the movie it is revealed that it's not just a movie, but it's all true. Not only is it all true, but it's the Whole Truth.
At first you might be like, "Uh, I don't think that's how it works. While I appreciate some parts may have some truth in it, there is evidence that there is more to it, and some parts may be mischaracterized, not matching other evidence."
But what if you were forced to watch that movie every Sunday. And you were told to teach your children that the movie was the Whole Truth. What if the movie "as Truth" was codified into law. What if that training went on for year after year, century after century, for millennia.
People wouldn't even question that this Hollywood movie was the Whole Truth. Obviously it's the Whole Truth. We've known it was so all our lives. This is the original movie. It's 2000 years old! I HAS to be true. If it wasn't true, it wouldn't have lasted this long!
Of course the evidence that there is more is still there, taunting the unwary heretic. The fact that some of the things included in the movie don't match other pieces of evidence is still out there as well, waiting for some Conspiracy Theorist to start spouting out nonsense.
Is the Hollywood Movie true, despite all the evidence that doesn't quite fit?
Beliefs are a powerful thing. They can create reality (lower case) and influence Reality (upper case). But if you want to control the world, and make a slave cast out of self-empowered beings, as the Church (AKA The Holy Roman Empire) did for a couple millennia; manipulating beliefs, distorting the Truth, through a Hollywood movie, that the diminished slaves are forced to watch, week after week, every Sunday, is a fantastic way to do it.
Imagine there's a movie, put out by Hollywood, that explains life, the universe, and everything. The movie seems fantastical, but at the end of the movie it is revealed that it's not just a movie, but it's all true. Not only is it all true, but it's the Whole Truth.
At first you might be like, "Uh, I don't think that's how it works. While I appreciate some parts may have some truth in it, there is evidence that there is more to it, and some parts may be mischaracterized, not matching other evidence."
But what if you were forced to watch that movie every Sunday. And you were told to teach your children that the movie was the Whole Truth. What if the movie "as Truth" was codified into law. What if that training went on for year after year, century after century, for millennia.
People wouldn't even question that this Hollywood movie was the Whole Truth. Obviously it's the Whole Truth. We've known it was so all our lives.
Of course the evidence that there is more is still there, taunting the unwary heretic. The fact that some of the things included in the movie don't match other pieces of evidence is still out there as well, waiting for some Conspiracy Theorist to start spouting out nonsense.
Is the Hollywood Movie true, despite all the evidence that doesn't quite fit?
Beliefs are a powerful thing. They can create reality (lower case) and influence Reality (upper case). But if you want to control the world, and make a slave cast out of self-empowered beings, as the Church (AKA The Holy Roman Empire) did for a couple millennia; manipulating beliefs, distorting the Truth, through a Hollywood movie, that the diminished slaves are forced to watch, week after week, every Sunday, is a fantastic way to do it.
Imagine there's a movie, put out by Hollywood, that explains life, the universe, and everything. The movie seems fantastical, but at the end of the movie it is revealed that it's not just a movie, but it's all true. Not only is it all true, but it's the Whole Truth.
At first you might be like, "Uh, I don't think that's how it works. While I appreciate some parts may have some truth in it, there is evidence that there is more to it, and some parts may be mischaracterized, not matching other evidence."
But what if you were forced to watch that movie every Sunday. And you were told to teach your children that the movie was the Whole Truth. What if the movie "as Truth" was codified into law. What if that training went on for year after year, century after century, for millennia.
People wouldn't even question that this Hollywood movie was the Whole Truth. Obviously it's the Whole Truth. We've known it was so all our lives.
Of course the evidence that there is more is still there, taunting the unwary heretic. The fact that some of the things included in the movie don't match other pieces of evidence is still out there as well, waiting for some Conspiracy Theorist to start spouting out nonsense.
Is the Hollywood Movie true, despite all the evidence that doesn't quite fit?
Beliefs are a powerful thing. They can create reality (lower case) and influence Reality (upper case). But if you want to control the world, and make a slave cast out of self-empowered beings, as the Church (AKA The Holy Roman Empire) did for a couple millennia; manipulating beliefs, distorting the Truth, through a Hollywood movie, that the diminished slaves are forced to watch, week after week, every Sunday is a fantastic way to do it.