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It goes beyond churches. Both Catholics and Protestants have used fear to keep the sheep in line in history, and it's lame to play "my team" with denominations when all of them terrified their congregants to keep them in line, so I won't start some "my team is best" religious war in this thread. Some ministers go off on "Catholic heresy" just like some priests go off on "Protestant heresy", and some Orthodox clergymen probably go off on both. This is about keeping control, as well as power, through fear, and this isn't just about religiosity, but it extends to *all* facets of life, from political soup to racial nuts.
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