Reply #4: My cursory study of history suggests that totalitarian governments need [View All]

[jody]

a state religion.

Karl Marx said "Religion is the opiate of the masses." History since that time supports his statement and a Super Power needs a state religion or it will probably fail. It will probably fail anyway, but a state religion binds the working masses to a life of drudgery in expectation of an eternity of leisure.

It is dreams like that which have helped African-Americans survive several centuries, a desperate hope that they will be free at last on the other side of Jordan.

Some historians report that Hitler cut a deal with the Roman Catholics but he intended to develop his own brand of religion after he created his thousand Year Reich.