TNP96 Secrets of the Temple with John Michael Greer
The Numinous Podcast
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Religion Turned Into Moral Policing
In the western half of the old world, there's this one real god who is none of these gods of nature. He's mostly concerned with telling you what to do in your private life - especially in bed. And that's where we get monotheism, and that's what we get am. Religion turned into moral policing. You know, you're doing something evil. K hu, you don't find this in the older religions. It's very much something that started at a certain point in history. There were complex reasons whyw which i discussed in the book,. why it took off and why it why it developed away.
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