Finding a wife

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When a newly married couple were in bed, the man asked, "How many men have you slept with in your life?"

After the question, the woman didn't respond.

The man asked again, "Just tell me, it's fine. How many men have slept with?"

His wife was still in total silence, just staring at the ceiling.

The man then said lovingly, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to upset you. I just thought that we could trust each other. "

Still silence from his wife.

The man, giving up, said, "It's OK! Please don't be upset!"

Since the woman was still silent, the man started hugging and kissing her, showing his affection.

While he was doing this, his wife seemed to come to her senses, stopped looking at the ceiling, looked at him, and upset, told her husband, "dang it! You made me lose count!"
 
That's the age old thing that has been a "feature" of religion since the dawn of time.
Those practicing priestcraft (aka religion for profit) very quickly form an alliance with the government whereby the government and the religious leaders work hand in hand to keep the masses subservient to each other for profit and power.

What's funny is if you used to play old school Sim City or Sim Civilization, that was like a feature, when the populace was rising up against your tyrannical taxation and rules, you could spend some money to buy off the local priests and build them fancier buildings and have them preach to the people that it was god's will for them to submit to their ruler.

Lots of folks here have a bit of the blinders on and only see it happening in "Christian" churches, but go take a look at things like Islam or many eastern religions and they are even more blatant about religion supporting political power (and of course political power gives religion the friendly reach around for their trouble as well).
said this many times and you are totally correct. "render unto Cesar". helps the gov get their piece and justifies using their lethal police power to force everyone to follow your controlling "moral" code. Islam being built on the combining of church and state. Christianity and Judaism use a 2 sided mutually supporting process to control the population and enrich both. "render unto Cesar" but let our huge churches and multiple property and financial holdings off tax free.
both gov and religion are all,and only,about control,control,control. i always thought that freedom OF religion should also include freedom FROM religion. that varies a lot of course over time and location.
 
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