Humans are bred and born to be "bossed" around, to ask when commanded to jump, "How high?" We all like to believe we're some kind of rebel rugged individualists who exercise complete free will on a daily basis. However, we all also know that's complete bullshit. We all obey our work bosses as if they were our slave masters. We all pay taxes and play nice with the State because everyone is terrified of the State's godlike power held over us like a gun pointed eternally at our heads. In truth, none of us are free . . . not in any way, shape or form . . . unless one is ending their own life; I suppose that final action and that one alone is the only truly free act one can commit.
Do not feel regret over questioning authority in any form. Question all authority wherever you encounter it. There was a time—not too many centuries past, now—when Christianity was used by the State to lock down the minds and behaviors of those the State could not totally dominate with threat of force alone. During those dark times Kings and Dukes and all manner of ruling nobility relied on the Church to preach absolute surrender and obedience to the State as part of their regular sermons.
Times have changed, religions have lost much of their State sponsored power to enforce and terrorize the masses. Nevertheless, millions and millions of people still freely surrender their spirit and will to the State through Christianity because it says to do so in the bible. Go figure. I suppose humans really aren't much more than cattle one can train to do the same tricks long, long after their master has returned to the dust of the ground. By such reasoning I wonder if people in general can be trained to bounce beach balls on their noses . . .
