Corrupt Government Officials – Many Atheists – Use the Most Extreme Forms of Religion to Divide and Conquer Us

May 5, 2013

Washingtonsblog

Preface: Fundamentalist Christians, Jews and Muslims all think they are in a "holy war" against the other guy. As shown below, fundamentalists are being manipulated by the powers-that-be – many of whom are actually atheists – as part of a divide-and-conquer strategy to disempower people.

The 2,000 Year Old Strategy

The strategy of dividing and conquering one's foes is ancient.

Ancient Roman emperor Julius Cesar successfully used it thousands of years ago.

The application of the strategy in controlling one's own people – divide and rule – has been used for just as long. As Wikipedia notes:
Elements of this technique involve:

• creating or encouraging divisions among the subjects to prevent alliances that could challenge the sovereign

• aiding and promoting those who are willing to cooperate with the sovereign

• fostering distrust and enmity between local rulers [or groups]

• encouraging meaningless expenditures that reduce the capability for political [organization or opposition] …..

In discussing the use of "divide and rule" in the U.S., Wikipedia discusses the "Use of left-right politics".

Indeed – even though the Founding Fathers warned us against the danger of a two-party system to divide the nation – left-right partisan divisions have successfully been deployed to distract and weaken the American people for centuries.

Religion has been used for the same purpose:

England invaded Ireland in 1170, but for the first 439 years it was a conquest in name only. In 1609, however, James I founded the Plantation of Ulster, imported 20,000 Protestant settlers, and introduced religious strife as a political tactic. By favoring Protestants over the native Catholics in politics and economics-the so-called "Ulster Privilege-the English pitted both groups against one another.

The tactic was enormously successful, and England used it throughout its colonial empire. Nowhere were the British so successful in transplanting the Irish model than in India.

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As prime minister [Churchill] once said that he hoped that the tension between Hindus and Muslims would remain "A bulwark of British rule in India."

The British were not alone in using religion as a tactic to divide and conquer. The French employed it quite successfully in Lebanon and Vietnam. In the former, Paris favored Maronite Christians over Muslims (and Sunni Muslims over Shiite Muslims), and in the latter, Catholics over Buddhists.

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Exploiting religious differences hardly ended with the demise of the great colonial empires.

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