About Faith (with a capital F)

From this /. comment:

>The concept of "Faith" was a magnificant and powerful creation--a tool that can allow a few people to control millions--
>and I'd like to meet the amazingly talented P/R man who figured out how to tag such a horrid, evil concept as "Good".
> Question Everything

I wasn't going to reply, but it seemed worthwhile to Question this statement. Who is controlled here? The billions of faithful who find meaning in life? In what way are we controlled? By adherence to principles that are conducive to the betterment of mankind like "love your neighbor as yourself" and "Thou shalt not kill?" What is the gain for these scheming, evil leaders and their P/R man? You don't exactly see a lot of priests pimping it up with 22" rims on their Lincolns and an escort on each arm. Celibacy, the difficulties of working with a faith-community, itchy robes, and a badly off-key choir...now there's a good reason to cook up a religion. I'm willing to guarantee you the overwhelming majority of religious leaders really do believe in the faith they profess. Yes there is a large degree of misdirection and a few unscrupulous groups that are nothing more than pyramid schemes or printing companies, but the basic precepts of most religions out there are founded, promoted, and executed with good intent.

While I don't subscribe to this particular religion, I feel that many of the same concepts really do apply. That, in a way, people (regardless of what faith/religion they believe in) have a duty to themselves and to other people to do something to reduce the amount of confusion and unhappiness in the world.

And I'd like to believe that I'm trying to achieve that in whatever ways I can.

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It's not too technical, and I think the lawyers/others in the house should be able to follow the legal arguments present. :)