> it feels > feels anon, im telling you that the long list of atrocities that religion has committed has done the exact opposite of what jesus was talking about, while religion itself killing him first (and the prophets before him) to prove his point. you take the dogma at face value. the book isn't presupposing anything that isn't written down with historical narrative. jesus was crucified by religious men, the prophets, apostles and disciples have been hunted by religious men. up until a point in the 4th century, believers were constantly killed for their beliefs, by literally any culture or group of people. this belief system is caustic to the natural impulse of what you would claim that all men are religious, all this belief system does is destroy that impulse, which actually disallows men from taking advantage of you because it exonerates you with your inability to be perfect and therefore doesn't compel you to live that way. mean while religion on the opposite side is  "conform or die." "conform or hellfire." when its literally the thing that jesus stood up to and it ended up murdering him.  i can tell that you may retort this that cohesive factions function far better than individual spirituality, in that they work together to s u b j u g a t e smaller groups of people or single individuals. the problem with this is that the mindset these groups have is labeled as the spirit of babylon, and it implies that man impulsively continues to make the same mistakes that cause him to build shit that topples over do to their own hubris.  these cycles are factually supported by 2,000 years of history.
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