Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus Christ.
It's a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was 'real' religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that's why it's completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.