The Olympic Pantheon existed . Why was it no longer considered a religion and written down as an exclusively historical aspect of time?
There are still people who believe in Hellenism. Not a big group of people but it still exists.
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Replacement, of all things, as is continually currently happening now.
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Мне кажется что данная религия имеет большой авторитет, так как она существовала около 1500 лет.
To answer the thread question. Polytheisms and henotheisms can’t be used effectively as tools to govern wage slaves for very long. Only by consolidating divine authority into one entity can the ruling class centralize its power as an exclusive class above the slave class. That’s to say there must be only one god from which the State receives its mandate to rule the slave class. There can’t be divisive factions and cults centered around individual gods that may be in disagreement with each other (see greek mythology). That confuses the slaves as to what to do, who to answer to and take orders from, etc.
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If you take at look Comte’s ideas, you’ll see how he’s streamlined, quite effectively, the entire evolution and development of the religious impulse in man. All man’s intellectual stages… beginning with the crude metaphysical worship of objects to giving praise to the Feuerbach-Freud anthropomorphic father figure in the sky. Finally, to reach the atheistic stage… ideally anyway. But forces are tirelessly at work (government, corporate, etc) making sure the wage slave class never reaches it.
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“There can’t be divisive factions and cults centered around individual gods that may be in disagreement with each other”
Why then are there the three warring abrahamic religions if what i say is true? That is an excellent question, and thank me very much for asking it.
Once the BIG THREE get established, countries form unions around those religious ideologies, go to war with each other militarily and economically, and then the capitalist-industrial complex shows up to exploit the conflicts.
Prior to the industrial revolution, there were no real corporate powers, and all capital was held by monarchies. There was no class of lobbiests to persuade political policy toward benefiting an elite capitalist class… so these empires couldn’t really afford or want to go to war.
Today, on the other hand, the governments of the world act exclusively in the interests of the biggest investors… and the biggest investors profit from the destruction caused by the religious wars. So, there being more than one religious ideology is to their advantage.
But you can’t build a stable bourgeois class in a society that is religiously heterogeneous. The initial stage of the society has to involve a workable relationship between a single supreme authority and the State. How long this lasts is different for each State depending on how well it satiates its wage slaves. If, like in America, the wage slaves are comfortable and the capitalist class has full control, they will welcome new religions. For instance the Catholic church relaxing its grip a little. The people are established, fully indoctrinated, no need to cast the menacing shadow of god over them anymore. Several hundred years ago, you couldn’t do that. You had millions of mudcaked slaves ready to break at any moment… so you had to keep em in line with threats of hell and obligations to work, etc.
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