The reason religion can so easily be used to create and justify war is because religion is war.

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The sole method used by people who only seek control is to combine just enough truth with just enough lies. Someone who can find this perfect balance between the two is called a narcissist. This is someone who is ultimately cunning, charismatic, criminal and manipulative. 

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This formula is the very formula that all religion was founded upon. Everyone who ever seeks "leadership" roles in religious organizations is this very person. A dangerous narcissist.

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When someone understands how to tell a story, in other words, when someone understands the mechanics of storytelling, this understanding of how manipulative religion is, well it becomes boldly apparent.

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Many people who believe in the existence of "God" and of a "Devil" see the Devil as the protagonist (hero) in the story and God as the antagonist (villain). The reason being that the Devil's message, as told by the very stories religion tells, is the exact same message as that of Jesus Christ. It's just told from a different perspective.

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This message of both the Devil and Jesus Christ being that we all deserve to bask in the glory we create. That we all deserve to bask in this glory whenever we create it. Not just when someone who rules over us (controls us) allows us to.

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This is where understanding perspective in storytelling becomes important. This is also where understanding the actions and motives of a narcissist is important. Their sole purpose and goal is to gain control over others by spreading fear. To find that perfect manipulative balance between truth and lies to do so. 

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My father is a horrible narcissist. In my life, and even to this very day, he will tell everyone that I'm completely unreasonable and I want everything. He's very good at playing a martyr. Something narcissists use to their advantage. It's one way they use people's own emotions against them.

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Because I've been unwilling to accept the horrible life my father has laid out for me, a life built upon him controlling me through lies and my own emotions, because I've stood up to him and confronted him about this... he has banished me to a life of hell. A life of homelessness.

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This is exactly what my old bosses and those in the political environment of Livingston County and the State of Michigan have done to me and to many others. For the same reason too. Because I wouldn't accept the miserable life they had all laid out for my sons and I. Because I stood up against them and asked for a better life for us. They too have banished me to a life of hell for standing up against them. They've done this to many others too.

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You see, I've never wanted everything. I've just wanted a fair chance in life. A fair chance no narcissist ever wants anyone to have. If someone is determined in seeking such a life, narcissists banish that person to a life of hell. Or they murder that person. Either directly or, as in my case, passive aggressively.

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The way the conversation is presented in religion is that the Devil went to God and demanded to have all of God's glory. That the devil didn't think God should have all the glory and only taunt and tease the angels with this glory. 

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Having the story be told with fictional characters called angels is critical to making the lies of the story stick. You must tell the story using human like characters that are supposedly more advanced than actual humans are. This creates the disconnect necessary to make those lies stick.

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So, God banished the Devil to a place called hell. He did because the Devil was unwilling to accept the miserable life God had laid out for him and for the other angels. This fictional place called hell is a place that consists of the most horrific circumstances known, and not known, to humanity. Something to make people fear ever standing up for their own rights.

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That's the "First Testament" of "God". The so-called angry God.

 

The "New Testament" of this fictional character called God (the new and improved God) introduces the concept of passive aggressive communication. It does this by using a constantly changing perspective that is being told through one character. This new and confusing character is called Jesus Christ. This new character, a new hero, embodies the same message as the devil yet perpetuates the motives of a narcissist. 

 

Manipulation using lies and emotions as the tools to manipulate.

 

This new hero (Jesus Christ) did the exact same thing the Devil did. He stood up for his rights and the rights of those around him. This new character's message (the message of a hero now, not of a villain) was the very same message as the Devil's message. However, now the entire story is told through a constantly changing perspective. 

 

Only this time, the character standing up for his rights, and the rights of those around him, his punishment is a different kind of hell. It's the public shaming, beating, torture and ultimate death of the hero. Something with even more truth tied to the lies. Something a real person can more relate with than a story about fictional angels. 

 

The message, however, is still loud and clear, just as it was in the other story about the Devil.

 

Don't ever stand up for your rights. You'll be severely punished if you do.

You see, religion's sole purpose is to control people and to enslave them. That is why religious organizations say they are releasing people from their chains of slavery. So they can appeal to those people's emotions and control those people, using their own emotions against them.

 

I'm very familiar with this concept of a father "sacrificing his only son" to make himself look better. To be the ultimate martyr and savior to those around him. 

I'm also very familiar with this concept of being punished for standing up for my own rights and the rights of others. 

 

Only I'm not reading about it in the Bible. I'm living it in real life. 

The term religious freedom is an oxymoron. The two words are fully contradictory. Just as all the stories told by religion are fully contradictory. 

Religious freedom should never be allowed because the sole purpose of religion is to remove all freedom from the people.