Statism is the world’s most dangerous religion

The so-called war on terrorism is a front to propagate America’s global hegemony and create a New World Order. Terrorism is made in the US and terrorists are not the product of the Muslim world. The US global war on terrorism was used to enact anti-terrorism laws that demonised Muslims in the Western world and created Islam phobia. NATO was responsible for recruiting members of the Islamic state while Israel is funding “global jihad elements inside Syria.” The global war on terrorism is a fabrication, a big lie and a crime against humanity. ~Dr Michel Chossudovsky

The most dangerous religion in the world isn’t Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, or Buddhism, it’s statism. Statism is the centralization of government power with authority over every aspect of individual life. My definition leaves out the cult-like attitude of many people towards their government. People who worship their government and its violence and overall authority are the most dangerous of all religious people—prepared and willing to kill and die for monolithic governments. That’s what defines statism, and makes it worse than any other religion. Governments throughout history are responsible for killing far more people than all religions combined. Statism is the most dangerous religion in the world.

According to one estimate, some 231 million people died in the 20^th century due to “human decision.”  Some of the lowlights of the century include:

• World War I: between 13 and 15 million
• The Armenian Genocide (1915): 1 million
• The Russian Civil War and subsequent Polish-Soviet conflict (1918-1922): 12.5 million
• The Mexican Revolution (1909-1916): 1 million
• The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): 600 thousand
• Various colonial and other pre-1914 wars: 1.5 million
• World War 2: between 65 and 75 million (including German and Japanese concentration camps)
• Wars and conflicts between 1945 and 2000: 41 million
• USSR forced starvations, labour and concentration camps: 35 million
• North Korea: 2.4 million
• Various campaigns in China (1949-1975): 47 million
• Forcible enslavement in Congo (1900-1908): 4 million (source)

Religion and statism share similar characteristics:

• Centralization. The greatest power is concentrated at the apex of the hierarchical pyramid.
• Holy Books. Books of laws, codes, statutes and regulation serve as the regulating mechanism of the populace.
• Holidays. Like religious holidays, the state also has its own special days where the state and its important people are exhorted and celebrated.
• Clergy. The state, like religion, has special classes of people at the top who claim to have more knowledge and rights than the rest of the populace: politicians, judges, and enforcement officers.
• Temples. Grand structures built with stolen or coerced money where all the magic is supposed to happen: state houses, legislative buildings, memorials, courthouses etc., all built on a grand scale that the people can’t but notice its almightiness.
• Laity. What is religion without a bunch of die-hard followers. In the case of the state, it’s the voters, “dutiful citizens,” and the mainstream media class that serve to prop it up.
• Tithing. In religion, tithing is expected from the laity. In the case of statism, this tithing is not optional, it is guaranteed under force. Don’t pay and you’ll be sent to a hell of their own making: prison.
• Myths. Good men throwing off monarchy for self-determination and freedom; what is good for society is good for all; all men are created equal; government will solve all social ills; without government we would have no roads or schools or healthcare. All of this of course, is nonsense because what they say does not match up to the reality of what they do.
• Infallibility. Belief in the state instils the idea that government is infallible, that it can cure all ills, that if the people don’t like it they can vote to change it. But in no case will the populace ever be allowed to make it go away forever.
• Supernatural ‘afterlife.’ The state grants special supernatural privilege to those of certain rank or position. A) Itself—it never dies, just keeps on living thanks to the beliefs of its die-hard believers and B) Corporations—corporations are unnatural legal creations of the state that have been granted powers of unlimited life span and limited liability, rights that no natural person can ever have. Where these supernatural powers came from, no one knows, but then claim to have the lock on granting them.
• Patriarchy. The state has an obsession with male figureheads and bestowers of special knowing or wisdom.