Since all social orders and hierarchies are imagined, they are all fragile, and the larger the society, the more fragile it is. The crucial historical role of religion has been to give superhuman legitimacy to these fragile structures. Religions assert that our laws are not the result of human caprice, but are ordained by an absolute and indisputable authority. This helps place at least some fundamental laws beyond challenge, thereby ensuring social stability.
I'm still trying to puzzle through all the brainwashing that has been encoding into my brain. The amount of malarkey that has just been sold to us as self-evident beliefs is astounding.
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