In part, yes, if you look at religions' "vested interest" reason for survival as a lucrative business enterprise. But my pedestrian logic dictates that "there's more than meet the eyes" because the well-crafted plot in this well-thought 5,000 year-old drama still unfolding has more twists and turns than the Burma Road.

Volumes of documented reports of mysterious cosmic radio signals from legitimate and well-funded scientific groups in search of extraterrestrial life have often been declared classified by the authorities not fit for public consumption.

There's a deeper angle to the issue on the separation of church and state cloaked in so much mysteries that it would take more than a lifetime to comprehend - because they wanted it that way - to keep us in constant turmoil, chaos and intense conflict.

To quote Walter Scott: "Oh what a tangled we weave."

i doubt it

Meaning, does every civilization exterminate itself soon after getting the technology, and is "religion" invariably the reason?