At it's conception, god was used to explain the things mankind did not understand. Then when some men figured out that money could be made duping poor souls looking for answers, religion was born. Religion today has taken that ability to the highest level with some of the scammers making millions and flying around in private jets so as to minister more of the "flock". And they get to do it tax free! So don't bother to tell me I don't understand, I understand completely. I just don't know if you are one of the scammers, or one of the scammed.
Should anyone doubt this Leviticus 7 gives proof of it.
Leviticus, 7
1. "This is the ritual for the sacrifice of reparation: "It is especially holy.
2. The victim must be slaughtered where the burnt offerings are slaughtered, and the priest will pour the blood all around the altar.
3. He will then offer all the fat: the tail, the fat covering the entrails,
4. both kidneys, the fat on them and on the loins, the mass of fat which he will remove from the liver and kidneys.
5. The priest will burn these pieces on the altar as food burnt for Yahweh. This is a sacrifice of reparation.
6. Every male who is a priest may eat it. It will be eaten inside the holy place; it is especially holy.
7. "As with the sacrifice for sin, so with the sacrifice of reparation -- the ritual is the same for both. The offering with which the priest performs the rite of expiation will revert to the priest.
8. The hide of the victim presented by someone to the priest to be offered as a burnt offering will revert to the priest. 9. Every cereal offering baked in the oven, every cereal offering cooked in the pan or on the griddle will revert to the priest who offers it.
10. Every cereal offering, mixed with oil or dry, will revert to all the descendants of Aaron ( priests were from the tribe of Aaron) without distinction.
11. "This is the ritual for the communion sacrifice to be offered to Yahweh:
12. "If this is offered as a sacrifice with praise, to the latter must be added an offering of unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and wheaten flour in the form of cakes mixed with oil.
13. This offering, then, must be added to the cakes of leavened bread and to the communion sacrifice with praise. 14. One of the cakes of this offering must be presented as an offering to Yahweh; it will revert to the priest who pours out the blood of the communion sacrifice.
25. Anyone who eats the fat of an animal offered as food burnt for Yahweh will be outlawed from his people.
36. This was what Yahweh ordered the Israelites to give them (the priests) on the day they were anointed: a perpetual law for all their descendants.
37. Such was the ritual for burnt offering, cereal offering, sacrifice for sin, sacrifice of reparation, investiture sacrifice and communion sacrifice,
38. which Yahweh laid down for Moses on Mount Sinai, the day he ordered the Israelites to make their offerings to Yahweh in the desert of Sinai."
Leviticus, 7 - Bíblia Católica Online
There is a straight line from Old Testament priests to the Jerry Falwells and Tammy Fay Bakers of US evangelicals.
