Reply #38: Wars are about power. [View All]

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Religion is just one of many justifications that the bosses use to get ordinary citizens to kill their fellow humans to get and maintain power.

Priests, politicians, emperors, generals, and other "leaders" all justify the murder by dehumanizing other people and then dehumanizing their "followers" by making them murderers...all for a good cause, of course. The "leaders" all promise to lead us to the Promised Land and save us from the always "evil" others who are being told the same thing by their "leaders".

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.” - Gandhi