@leelah said in Tell us something interesting:
@vkoami victim blaming is very sad. What do these people have to do to prevent being tortured by the universe? Follow specific guidelines and not question their hardwired beliefs. I bet greedy rich rulers at the top have loved their people preoccupied with fear based beliefs all through history and all over the world.
Now don't turn faith into what it is not. Of course you are right, rulers can use faith to govern people. But it is also the other way round. Let's take christianity for example. God (faith) has always been the one authority that the rulers had to listen to. Take john the babtist for example. It isn't just random, that he was killed by a king (or rather his wife) who didn't like to follow this authority above him.
And now take societies that have abandoned faith all together. This might actually answer your question about something interesting: the sowjet union alone had more victims than nazi germany. And every other communist country produced millions of deaths. Having no faith produces definitely more harm, than having faith.
Also it is not that rulers invented faith, like ever. They were usually born into it too.
Also rulers were never free. They had to follow an incredible etiquette. No society works with just the leader. It always requires a whole apparatus of collaborators. And they usually followed their own interests and didn't kill only a handful rulers replacing them with someone that favored their interests.