Okay so I guess it goes without saying that religions invented the concept of hell to scare people, keep them in line, and to get them to do as they were told. Even if you believe in God, or a higher power, you inherently know or realize this tricky tactic. Okay so, let's go ahead and talk about this for a moment shall we?
There was an interesting piece in Homeland Security News titled; "Belief in hell associated with reduced crime," published on June 19, 2012 which stated;
"A broad study, study following 143,197 people in sixty-seven countries over twenty-six years, found that criminal activity is higher in societies in which people's religious beliefs contain a strong punitive component than in places where religious beliefs are more benevolent; a country where many more people believe in heaven than in hell is likely to have a much higher crime rate than one where these beliefs are about equal."
Okay but, indoctrinating people into this line of thinking will curtail the enjoyment of their life experience, and it is in itself "evil" to use or manipulate human minds in this way. Not long ago, I was talking to a conspiracy theorist, and he explained to me that he believed that the government and those running the Internet were trying to give the impression to everyone in the public that they were constantly being watched, even though they weren't really.
His thinking was that it would be similar to creating the concept of an all-knowing God watching you in your life at all times, judging you, to see if you were worthy of going to heaven. If not you were going to go to hell - but in the case of massive surveillance of the population, if you did something wrong, you would get demerits, and not have the same opportunity life, or if you did something really bad, you would be caught and put in jail. Could it be that the same theories are being used to control the populations of the world?
Still, is this much control good? It doesn't seem to do very well for the individual when it's used in a religion, and it certainly can't do very much good for liberty and freedom when a government does it - using surveillance in this case, either real or perceived. Now then, it would be nice to see if the same sort of study was done when it came to the increased abundance of surveillance in human societies and civilizations throughout the world. I imagine the study would show a similar statistical value in the surveys.
Who knows, maybe my conspiracy friend that I see at Starbucks now and again is onto something? It's hard to say, but it is an interesting topic so I'm glad I discussed it with you today. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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