Who invented the punitive God? Smiting was a great way to subjugate followers. The codes laid down forced behavior. Go to church 4 times a week and pay up each time. I think of the very, very poor, stripped of meager earnings, tithing their last bits of gold. People must behave a certain way, Those people banded together in their own echo chamber, 4 ti…
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