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Some of the best social thinkers who ever lived have addressed themselves to the question of how religious institutions function as mechanisms of social control. You might as well get ready to blow your mind and read:

Max Weber, The Sociology of Religion, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Sigmund Freud, The Future of An Illusion, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Civilization and Its Discontents

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Ten reasons to believe in God	Atheism is a crutch for weak people	I can't decide if what you're saying is too profound for me to comprehend or just insane	An atheist's defense of Christianity
Your radical ideas about society, individualism, and religion have already occurred to others	If "cult" religions are so good at mind control, why are their attrition rates so high?	Atrocities in the Bible	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
My Religion teacher spoke for God	The role of unbelievers is to ensure religions are benign	Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego	Hating religion is different from hating an ethnic group
Faith is Irrefutable	Karl Marx	God	Religious Zealots are the worst
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life	Losing my religion	Being a Christian is magical and foolish: Maybe we're all caught up in a collective psychosis	Civilization and Its Discontents
Quickly, intellectually bludgeon your faith	A child who will clearly grow up to be as demented as me	I figured out Faith	Emile Durkheim

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