... take on a perspective of an ability to create and most commonly an ability to destroy. When an individual really studies religion they find that it focuses on the concept of power. Whether it is the power to create them in the beginning and the power to destroy them or condemn them to an undesirable state when they die physically on this planet, this concept lies ... on power by a controlling group or of an individual, and that power itself must be maintained foremost in any type of society or it is subject to collapse. "Nicolo Machiavelli contended in The Prince that rulers could maint...

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