(July 13, 2014 at 1:48 pm)bberryhill0 Wrote: You have to go back further to the Ottoman Empire. The boundaries were redrawn to benefit the colonial powers. Money always trumps religion. But yes, religion needs to be removed from the equation. Let the religious zealots draw their own boundaries. However that changes the dynamics of oil. God put our oil under their sand so we have to stay involved. It's the Christian thing to do. God gave us dominion over that oil so we must do God's will despite the savages quibbling over where they will live. We are God's chosen people.

(July 13, 2014 at 2:49 pm)bberryhill0 Wrote: Now you're talking about a complete upending of the social order. How do you control the little people if they don't believe that life will be better when they are dead?!? Might makes right and money makes might, thus money is right. Ideally it would be best to eliminate the 99% of people who are poor but then who would cook my dinner and change my sheets?

(July 13, 2014 at 2:21 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No shit money trumps religion, which is why religion needs to be treated like a poison because it prevents humans from focusing on all corruption. Take away religion as the heat shield to money, you give the power back to the people instead of allowing money to sell utopias to maintain their power.

(July 13, 2014 at 10:30 pm)Lek Wrote: It you think this is true take a look at at every communist country that ever existed and show me how the power was given back to the people. The "people" lost any bit of power that they had before. Now look at countries that developed with large christian majorities and compare them to the communist countries.