I believe that Religion was invented to keep the rich and educated in power while exploiting the slaves and the uneducated. <br />The many Religions, I think, were created as integral parts of economics systems<br />It worked 10,000 years ago and it works today.<br />Modern-day religions are closely tied to political systems.<br />There's a marriage between politics and religion and that marriage works in keeping the uninformed and the ignorant in line.<br />In the United States of America, White Nationalism would not have been as popular where it not for the endorsement of religion.<br /><br />