There are also used for propaganda, social and mental conditioning.
Is there anything wrong with religious propaganda? I know here to be religious means to be strange. There is this firm image of the cold sceptic, the intellectual, that everyone becomes. However it seems that these religious persons who have to hide their religiousness, to avoid mockings, are fine people.
They have some bright ideas, and although it can be childish, they have some faith in something, some hope, some insight. They also seem to be more happy in their daily life and manage in the familly and problems well with some core principles. The other way is to over-intellectualize and make every matter complicated. One will just say love and other one will know this is "sublimation of energy due to some infant trauma that projects itself in an adorable image that will substitude the simbol of the archetype of the need of security and self assurance ... etc"
Now do you think BKs gather with the intention to dominate the society and human being's minds. Who creates or sustains this image of the powerful hidden society. There is nothing like this. There are ordinary people there. If you slap them on the face they will feel the same way as anyone. In their facing society they will feel as strang? as anyone else.
In the Murli it is said that Baba likes big pictures. Indeed there is something in this. As if one does not hide anything and these are clear. BKs also enter the society with the attitude to wake it up, enlighten it and help people, but they are genuine. Most of them just lack some insight so they do what they are said to, there is something in this as well.
Now what is wrong in these pictures, whether they are correct or not, if it is just a possible theory, then there is no harm in presenting it. The history we learn at school, it is only a theory too, but because all cannot be scientist, historian etc., then the ordinary one does not dare confront it, because it needs a lot of study, but just accepts the authority. Now because this knowledge is very simple then everyone learns it for few days and feels free to confront it or makes it up.
We know to the extent everyone knows, then why some feel OK with The Knowledge and some not? Is it only to say some are stupid and some clever. Maybe it is some tendency or habit like from the past, whatever we have followed it is easy to adopt. Authority, logic, history, and emotions through these ideas are proved.
One is to learn and one is to look from an angle. Why would we accept that Charles Darwin or Sigmund Freud were not only glory obsessed, egoistic, meterial gain oriented or having some personal problems and their study is only a result of these, because we did not know them personally. At least in The Knowledge there is some holiness and in the people. There may be many complaints about people, but are there any complaints towards The Knowledge.
Is there any wrong practice that is preached or wrong ideas, i mean no matter whether they are right or wrong, are they righteous. There are righteous ideas and practices and result is good. This knowledge is not to create unhappy or dependant people. If praticed properly it should lead us to heaven.