Religion In A Well-Regulated Society

The importance of religion in a society can go to the extreme, but in some societies it is not taken to consideration. A society has its own culture and religion is part of that culture in which people follow. Personally, in my family’s culture the religion that we follow is Catholicism.
The force and power religion can have is scary in the part where people think that everything they are doing has to deal with the religion they practice. Religion can be a dangerous and disruptive force in a well-regulated society because of it power of manipulation, power to segregate the society, and the power to terminate with a society. If religion has the power to do this types of things, religion can be the military any powerful country needs.
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Segregation has never lead to good endings. When we look at the past, the segregation of people by color in the U.S. lead to a civil war, also, the segregation of the jews and germans lead to the World War II. Similarly, in the gender segregation, in the play the Bacchae the king’s empire was thrown over the board by the power of religion. Dionysus religion power was able to have all the females in his side which drove the regulated society crazy. When the soldier in The Bacchae mentioned, “ Now, about these Bacchic women you’d arrested, chained and locked up in the public jail- they’re free, they escaped to the mountains, they are dancing around up there, calling on the God” (Lines 443-446). The segregation created by the power of Dionysus shows how destructive religion can be. The females were completely isolated so that they could glorify their religion/Dionysus. It is obvious that dionysus expressed the power he had because he was able to influence people with his religion and at the same time segregate the society so that it would be easier for his religion to take over the king’s