The conversion ideology

For as good as the entire history of humankind, man has not wasted one moment in getting others to convert to what s/he believed in. It's almost unbelievable when coming to learn about the ease a few of them had in pulling thousands of people behind their ideology. Still, once you know that the majority believed in as good as the same kind of gods albeit with a slightly different name, then the mystery becomes less mysterious. There is no doubt that the man, woman and child we have come to call idol worshippers worshipped worldwide the same idols like the sun and the moon for instance. Every one of them had gods in the same likeness of Astarte for instance, or also called Ishtar in other places. So you see, just how close every man lived with his fellow man. Even when they lived for thousands of miles away from each other, then still there was a kind of bond with one another that connected them all together, namely in that they had the same thoughts and fears about mundane happenings all around them that they could not explain in a rational way nor in the logic of the time for they didn't know better at that moment within their life. They lived by what they knew and what they didn't knew and often feared became a part of their religious convictions because it was something that went above their head, was mystic in their eyes. They couldn't grasp the essence, it was godly for them.

What some regarded thus as the wisdom of one of their wise man, the sorcerer of the tribe, was something that was not that unique to that place. Many other people around the world believed in the same, even when they never had heard of each other and won't have met one another neither during their entire life, not even one of their members who belonged to the same tribe as they did. They believed in what every man could see with his/her own eyes, even could touch. Their belief was restricted to the elements of nature they mostly feared, elements that were everywhere the same and still are of course. Due to that, it was not that difficult for wicked personalities to create a complete religious ideology around it, the package that would give them a lot of power. Wherever you went, the same fear wandered around like a ghost of the past that kept man after tens of thousands of years still trembling and their heart weak so that their eyes would stay closed because they all were led by a blind who him-/herself didn't know better neither. Oh yes, s/he knew, but there was nothing else to worship. There was no escape. There was nothing else to flee to, to embrace and become freed from the bondage they all saw and interpreted as something natural to do. It was nature that called them, and they bowed in awe or fear for when that call came depending on the season. And this has always been so since man could remember. So why changing the concept? Was it not better to utilize it as it was?

But the more the knowledge grew, the more extreme the ideology became worshipped for the leader saw his/her position slipping through his/her hands. Time and evolution never stood still, and there were always people who were gifted with thoughts beyond the realm of their world. Often, they could not really understand what they experienced right away. And so, they asked advice to the wise of the tribe. Those men and women mostly created a suitable explanation for the person to understand, but it made the thought not really understandable, rather it became a part of the ideology within the constraints of the mind of the time and tribe. The knowledge became stripped of its meaning, its essence, but it made the wise even more dangerous than the day before because they knew that if one man almost put their power into jeopardy, then more could follow. In such instances, they realized that a new dawn was coming around and only when they could anticipate that dawn correctly, they would be able to keep their position safe and secure. Yes, simple men and women from their own tribe became in a way smarter than themselves and without realizing it made the wise stronger and kept themselves wandering around in the same darkness as before, or became even killed, murdered, offered in the name of one of their gods. As such, man evolved and so did his religious thoughts and ideologies within the realm of their world and dead became worshipped more than life for the wise knew that the element of fear kept people's nature weak against their strength, their acquired knowledge.

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