American's longing for spirituality in a consumer culture is BEING WEAPONIZED AGAINST THEM IN THE GUISE OF RELIGION.
Religion is being used to 'discredit' science and intellectualism, that is, KNOWING THINGS that could be used to create democracy, indict war criminals, or regulate polluting industries.
Every single story about 'religion' in the CIA-steered mainstream media is pushing misinformed, fearful, US vs THEM-thinking Americans TOWARDS RELIGION. This is part of the 'blue vs red' 'saved vs sinner' strategy to both divide the country and create a brownshirt movement that supports any politician who waves a bible at them.
Why? Because dictators need a 'blindly follow the leader'-mentality in the masses.
The Father/Fuhrer/Lord emotional appeal works as Hitler knew.
That's THE REAL 'INTELLIGENT DESIGN' BEHIND THIS STORY!
This is creating and exploiting the 'Authoritarian Personality' that is the root of BOTH fascism and fundamentalism as discovered by researchers after the massacres of WWII.
This 1979 US Army Psychological Operations Manual says it all. It was meant to be used in Nicaragua but is used on Americans as well:
http://www.tscm.com/CIA_PsyOps_Handbook.html(Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare
Army Manual 33-1 1979)
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"The target groups for the Armed Propaganda Teams are not the persons with
sophisticated political knowledge, but rather those whose opinion are formed
from what they see and hear. The cadres should use persuasion to carry out
their mission. Some of the persuasive methods that they can use are the
following:
Interior Group/Exterior Group. It is a principle of psychology that we humans
have the tendency to form personal associations from "we" and "the others," or
"we" and "they", "friends" and "enemies," "fellow countrymen" and
"foreigners,""mestizos" and "gringos."
The Armed Propaganda Team can use this principle in its activities, so that
it is obvious that the "exterior" groups ("false" groups) are those of the
Sandinista regime, and that the "interior" groups ("true" groups) that fight
for the people are the Freedom Commandos.
We should inculcate this in the people in a subtle manner so that these
feelings seem to be born of themselves, spontaneously.
"Against" is much easier that "for." It is a principle of political science
that it is easier to persuade the people to vote against something or someone
than to persuade them to vote in favor of something or someone."
http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm(Fascism Receptivity Questionairre plus explainer)
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html(Operation Mockingbird: The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA)
http://www.counterpunch.org/davis01082005.html(The Psychology of Christian Fundamentalism)
Read this one several times.This is a deep article explaining the difference between looking inward to examine your fears and looking outward to demonize infidels and sinners.
The suicidal impulse towards Armageddon is explained here along with the sexual aspect of shame that feeds the 'bedroom moralizing' on abortion and homosexuality.