There is certainly wisdom distilled into the texts, they've made it this far. I found the bit about fasting particularly interesting, because its now being stud

There is certainly wisdom distilled into the texts, they've made it this far. I found the bit about fasting particularly interesting, because its now being studied and proven to be therapeutic, and is mentioned and practiced often in both western and eastern religions. Funny that you mentioned population control, one could consider science a popular religion of today ;) As you said, not all religions get along. That, and marvel is the new greek mythology, they'll unfortunately be watching those movies a thousand years from now in history class and thinking we were idiots.