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[Barloke]

Thats news to me! I never knew they were origional agents of the first Matrix but it just backs up what you said about the religious undertones. I guess the Architect was more accurate than believed before when he said that the first Matrix was perfect. It probably really was a "heavenly" version of the Matrix. You know it gets me thinking, if the first Matrix was perfect and if Smith was right it ended in disaster because it gave the blue pills a "too good to be true" vibe I wonder if the concept of religion and heaven carried over to the next versions of the Matrix. For example if you were a blue pill in the third version of the Matrix would your idea of heaven as taught to you would just be from what the Machines constructed in the first Matrix? Is it possible that Exiles, including The Merovingian (who I wouldn't be surprised was cast as Satan in the first Matrix or at least started down that path) spread these rumors in each version of the Matrix?. We have proof that exiles aren't blind to the religious aspects of human nature, even Sister Margaret in Mara must be using it for her own purposes as well (unless she really believes in a "God").

No it wouldn't surprise me at all if the concept of Heaven was just that, a concept engineered by the Machines and a failed one at that but even a failed version of the Matrix would still have some purpose.