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Former Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Suggests Religion Is Used To Manipulate People

wisportsheroics.com Former Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Suggests Religion Is Used To Manipulate People

The Green Bay Packers, for the first time in years, are enjoying a drama-free offseason. Sure, they fired defensive coordinator Joe Barry earlier this year,

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IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN USED TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE! That’s all it has ever been. It’s used to hold power over people by preying on their fear of the unknown.
- Naw, not only manipulation. It's also poor man's philosophy. Humans like to have an answer for the big questions wether they know wtf they're saying or not. I think something like religion is inevitable with the absence of explanations.
- It’s used to hold power over people
  
  Yes. It’s used by the rich to make people into stooges to do their bidding.
- And burning them at the stake if they didn't do as told.
  
  It's about power.

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