most people that are dealing with information miss the understanding of the concept of mental and spiritual realms,
a human being that fears a punishment of in hell if he steals, doesnt need a continously running police state over his head to reinforce his honesty.
many westerners misunderstand the concept and idea behind the abrahamic religions, also judaism or islam.
regards
No offense, KingScorpio, but I think it's you who is misunderstanding a couple of things here.
If you need to "reinforce" someone's "honesty", you're not dealing with an honest person - whether you do it by having big brother look over their shoulder, or by spreading tales about an all-seeing old pervert in the sky watching them masturbate at night and judging them for it, it makes no difference.
You shouldn't do / avoid doing things because you're afraid of the repercussions, but rather because you believe it's the right thing to do - your mileage may vary here but, for me, I'd say that would be what will create the society I want to live in, and leave behind for my kids to live in (and that might even be something that goes against the dictates of the state / religion of choice).
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well there is a huge difference betweeen fear of hell to keep order and fear of the legislation and punishment by the state, the later is more burocratic wasteful and has higher costs.
secondly when the financial system of a state collapses there is nothing left and it will emerge a direct anarchy while spiritual realms dont care a state collapse and continue to exist
It's a bit concerning to me that you seem to believe that without some "higher power" enforcing compliance, we'd all start behaving like dumb animals. Would you? Let's say tomorrow you simultaneously find out that god doesn't actually exist and that the police is too incompetent to actually do their job; would you go out on a rampage robbing and killing everyone you see? I'm guessing the answer is no.
We don't know enough about spiritual, mental or worldly realms to know what we are doing. We only live 100 years if that. The earth is ages older. And we can't seem to stop our aging.
The best is to follow what the religious books say. And the best of that is to calculate which religious book(s) is(are) best. The nation of Israel has existed for, like, 3,500 years, and it is still here. So, why would there not be strength in their writings... the Torah, the Tankh, the Talmud, the Bible?
Nah... let's go worship Indra instead.