--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@...> wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 8:41 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > What would you say, Vaj, to the suggestion (not original > > with me) that ALL of the myths of the enlightened being > > able to positively transform the environment were invented > > to sucker people into paying for their lives so that they > > didn't have to work? > > As Curtis pointed out a while back, it wouldn't surprise me if > that were the basis of most of religion.
It's certainly a legitimate way of viewing the history of religion and spiritual practice. Not the only way, but a legitimate way. And as I said, this idea is hardly original with me. You'd hear it in Sociology or Anthropology 101.
