If the objective of mainstream religions is to keep humanity enslaved..

[Fera]

It says that the objective of mainstream religions is to keep humanity enslaved and powerless but there are many successful religious artists and they seem to have powerful souls from outside, some of them at least.

If their religions are harmful for their souls and it's keeping them powerless and enslaved, how come they can obtain so much success in this world and look like they are enlightened?

 

[Karnonnos [SG]]

It doesn't necessarily block material success for individuals who have those things writ large in their soul. If someone is a great musician, Christianity cannot 'unmake' this immediately, only co-opt it.

However, the price of material success for many is enslavement through drugs, booze and food, passions, being under boot of the more powerful and shady, bad relationships, an existential sadness that success cannot override, libertinism and restriction leading to self-abasement, and whatever one's outlook, succumbing to infirmity and disease in a degraded way. Some artists, believe it or not, despise the art they make, and want to do something else, but can't; they are trapped.

The other issue is that all these earthly perspectives do not show what occurs to these people on the other side, and rarely this involves things like retardation and deafness occurring as an 'accident', for instance.

The ultimate powerlessness and slavery is mere ignorance, being in ignorance to the extent of most people that makes some improvement possible, but can never provide the full picture and not full manoeuvrability to do as one pleases.

The 'power' of their soul can be illusory in this context because being good at one thing does not preclude bad things from happening. If they piss off a bunch of rabbis in the street from an innocent mistake, all that can come crashing down in a microsecond. If they are physically weak and vulnerable to a serial killer, all the gold in the world can do nothing.

 

[Apprentice]

It all depends on how you define success. Being materially rich is great, but being rich both materially AND spiritually is incomparable.
The purpose of enemy "religions" is to keep followers spiritually poor and powerless.
These artists you mentioned may just be great Souls who despite the religion have managed to be succesful in life.

 

[nema]

It says that the objective of mainstream religions is to keep humanity enslaved and powerless but there are many successful religious artists and they seem to have powerful souls from outside, some of them at least.

If their religions are harmful for their souls and it's keeping them powerless and enslaved, how come they can obtain so much success in this world and look like they are enlightened?

A lot of old (like classical music) artists wrote about the Christian God but they were on Zeus's side.. I don't fully understand why though. The people who actively push mainstream religions are basically working for the government. That's why they are so rich and successful..

 

[Supermario70]

If their religions are harmful for their souls and it's keeping them powerless and enslaved, how come they can obtain so much success in this world and look like they are enlightened?

Being enlightened isn't an external appearance. Someone who is like "I'm saved I am so happy and all because of jeeezus, man" and looks like a blissfully ignorant zombie is the opposite of enlightened. This is someone who has his energy sucked by nefarious astral beings. A really enlightened person has taken the red pill like the Matrix movie. Seeing the uncomfortable truth isn't something that makes you stupidly happy and blissful, until you get over it.

And depends what you mean by success? More money for bying goyslop and meaningless consumerism? That's being a zombie again.