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From: klootz@morse.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.religion
Subject: The roots of religion
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 16:28:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 16:28:34 1984
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	We at Morse think that we should point out to you
the root cause for all religion.

	About 5000 years ago, a group of extraterrestrial aliens
landed on Earth.  Although they did not need, or want, to capture
the planet at that time, they thought that they should do something
to retard the growth of the sentient species.  They therefore appeared
to many groups of these proto-humans in "Godlike" form,  telling a
story of "creation" that was calculated to defuse the new species'
extreme curiousity.  A few visits over the next millenium served
to reenforce this impression, as the aliens would show up
occasionally after natural disasters and explain that they
were the cause, and that their "wrath" was invoked by disrespect
and licentiousness.    

	Despite their efforts, the race progressed.

	About 2000 years ago, they again decided to come
forth as a deity, and have an offspring that would teach
a humanistic, but extremely reactionary religion, one that
would precipitate the downfall of the current civilization and
ensure limited growth for a time after that.  The new religion
was constructed so that everything one needed to know was
written in a book.  The organization was made to feel that
it would be threatened by any ideas that disagreed, even superficially,
with that book, thus eliminating scientific progress for nearly 1600
years.   At the same time, several other "missionaries" of this
alien race went to other parts of the world, each teaching the
population a unique religion that would reject all others.  Some
of these "missionaries" went so far as to include exhortations of
violence in their denunciation of other religions and cultures,
as it seemed politic at the time.

	The results?  The racial growth was impeeded for nearly
5000 years, resulting in a great loss of "youthfull vigor", and
leaving the planet in a grossly overpopulated and somewhat damaged
state, just right for takeover.

	We at Morse do not know when this planet will be
taken over, but we caution it's residen