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The Society of God and Man
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John Heylin May 7, 2007 HSTEU 250, Sean Cocco The Society of God and Man Laws have been around since before the invention of writing. Every society, no matter how advanced or primitive acknowledges some sort of unwritten or written code, but laws only work when people realize that there are consequences when you break them. People soon realized that laws can be broken and the culprit won't always come to justice. Because of this, religion was soon conceived to solve the problem of everyone's problems. Not only does a religion explain the major question of how we as a people came to be, but it also lays the groundwork for laws that, in theory, everyone will atone to. By creating religion it gives everyone the impression that, even if they get away with their criminal behavior on the human level, they will answer for it on the supernatural level which no one can...
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