#Religion is poison.
The abstract is this: the Blue Church is a kind of narrative / ideology #control structure that is a natural result of #mass-media.
We can trace its roots at least as far back as the beginning of the 20th Century where it emerged in response to the new capabilities of mass media for #social-control. By mid-century it began to play an increasingly meaningful role in forming and shaping American culture-producing institutions; became pervasive through the last half of the 20th and seems to have peaked in its influence somewhere in the first decade of the 21st Century.
#Warning, it seems that all words in that article are hidden links to X, former #twitter.
