Our captured minds : how religions and ideologies exploit morality to order and control society / David Anthony Matthews.

"Why do you believe what you do? To what extend id your mind your own? Our Captured Minds provides a highly original, stimulating, and profound insight into the means whereby society is ordered and controlled by its leaders. This control is effected through religions and ideologies, which exploit and manipulate mankind 2019s inbuilt impulse to respond to moral order. In the course of describing exactly how and why this happens, the following points, among others, are covered: Reason vs. Revelation as the source of morality ; Altruism and Egoism ; How morality is formed ; Why ideologies are in fact religions, and vice versa ; The moral basis of fanaticism ; Socialism as religion in a secular age ; Why moral opinion can never be fact ; Belief in universal morality as the means of control."--Page 4 of cover.

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