A great pageant of religion

Ha, ha... Sitting here listening to Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams it came to me that all of history, particularly in mind the totalitarian movements of the last hundred years, is a great pageant of religion, only the religion of the Kingdom of Satan and its unconscious though also willful followers. A great pageant of idol worship and human sacrifice. All of it.

And what I mean is it is *actually* religion. All the effort and striving put into it, to effect such outcomes, such tyranny, such suffering. Religious activity. As if human beings can do nothing else. Just as we are either in the Kingdom of Satan or in the Kingdom of God, no in between, no neutral position, just so we can do nothing else but worship in either Kingdom.

Don't read this and say "obvious." It's not obvious. It's actual *religious* activity. Not political, not war, not revolution, not ideological strife, but underneath it all...religion. Human beings can engage in nothing else. The goals are the same, create as much human suffering and death as possible to feed the Kingdom of Satan. They'll sport different ideologies, different justifications, different historical resentments, etc., but the goals are the same underneath. See the church of Communism, the church of Nazism, the church of Italian Fascism, the church of Mao, the church of the Khmer Rouge. These were big productions. They aren't easy to get started. The usual is a more low level of scattered activity here and there. A low boil of hedonism, say. Or what have you.