OP, you sound to me like a Marxist. Basically, you're saying that society is fundamentally a system of oppression and that religion, as an element of society, is a manipulative tool for keeping individuals complacent with the status quo. Marx famously said that religion was the "opiate of the masses". That is, Religion justified their very oppression. If God preordained certain people to be in positions of dominance, the God also made other people to be in positions of subservience. Picture in your mind's eye the image of God as Divine Lord, Universal King, and Cosmic Judge. One can easily see how society models itself on religious ideas, thereby justifying the entire societal enterprise. And it was clear to Marx that the solution to this problem was for the oppressed class to rise up and revolt against their oppressors.
Personally, I'm not so sure that this is the case. Moreover, I don't think this is an accurate analysis of what exactly society and religion are. At any rate, OP, I heartily condone the practice, as others have suggested, of leaving society to dwell in the wilderness. Happy hunting, OP!
Im not talking about religion really. In fact, I actually approach the whole religion idea as a set of guidelines aimed somehow at instructing you what deed is good and prosperous for someone as a person and society as a whole, but rather than taking it's practical meaning into action, everybody (who chooses to pay any least of attention to any religious scripture) just stupidly sticks to the fairy tale part of the whole thing where God and Buddha are magicians, Muhammad the master of the Power Rangers, Buddha a shape-shifting "Highlander the Immortal" and where one doesn't even need to be a beneficial member of society and can instead be a fucking scar because it's all cool because Jesus Fucking Christ already laid his trump "free out of jail" card and spared us from any punishment or regrets should we inflict evil upon the world.
Im not going with marx or anyone, I simply state that the falacy of life we live in is completely hypocritical.
I.E: In ancient times, criminals would be bloodily slaughtered in public or humiliated. We do not do that now because of "human rights", or at least that's what we say, we just throw them in a cage where someone else does it for us and we play blind.
In ancient times, when a harvest would not yield for the population, human sacrifices were made or "ritual wars" were made, which's purpose was once again, to kill for or capture prisioners to sacrifice "for the Gods". According to history, these things made sense, but not because they made their gods happy. Taking out the overpopulation this way meant that no-one starved to death, hence civilians would not kill themselves over food and the tribe would survive the draught peacefully. In modern days, the exact same shit happens, only it happens in silence to most of us civilians. All we know is there is a lot of violence going on in the places of the world where the most valuable natural resources are and where food, health and leisure are competed and not accessible to everyone. And all we know is each time, more heavily armed police forces, military and private secirity armies engage with armed civilians and rebels who are native to the places being invaded by whealty multinational companies and people; and that these polices and armies go round gathering up for arrest anything that looks foreign to them, then they kill it. It is still competence and population control in order to make natural resources accesible for some, but we dont know about it, to us it is just unfortunate war, and as far as we go, it is caused because some douche just wants to be a douche.
