For anybody who still doesn’t believe that religion is very deliberately used as a social control mechanism, here’s an article from last year about how the Federal Reserve was studying the belief in hell. They found that it fuels the economy and limits corruption. How quaint!
“The expectation that there is a cultural belief in hell or perpetual and eternal punishment for wrongdoing will act as a disincentive to wrongdoing,” she said.
[...] “all else being equal, the more religious a country, the less corruption it will have and the higher its per capita income will be.”
News articles of course describe studies like this as if they were just cutesy news items that don’t really mean anything in particular and aren’t representative of any much more sweeping social research. (Here’s a link to the original article about it on a Federal Reserve site.)
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