Israel and World War III - Part 2 (The Christian/Judaic/Muslim Religious War)

Unfortunately this plays into a theme that I've been contemplating and posted on for a good five years: the endgame religious war.

At this time I wish to assert that we are in a global game of chess, for those in doubt view Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard and at this moment the chess pieces are being arranged for a catastrophic war. The nature of the war might not be as obvious to those who don't view the problem from a bird's eye view, instead gaining expertise on veritable minutia from up close, but upon a grander inspection, the objective comes clearly into focus.

For years, there has been clarion calls to "unify" under religion and while the somewhat vague calls of ending violence, war, and persecution are in themselves noble goals, mankind has demonstrated a penchant for doing the exact opposite of what he intends to do. History is replete with well meaning dictators that despite their best efforts, end up causing the very thing that were attempting to avoid in the first place through actions designed to prevent that very thing from happening.

All of this does not excuse us from living in peace with our brothers, rather it demonstrates the futility of attempting to "force" peace. On it's face, the concept is oxymoronic but an understandable conclusion of those who have witnessed far too much tragedy in their myopic lives. To illustrate let us examine the words of former President Bush -

If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

Unfortunately this is a god complex held by many, self included, at one point or another in our lives. "If only I could fix the world" is the rallying cry for many collegiate bound students and beauty pageant contestants. However, this assumes many erroneous things:

1. That the "world" is "broken"
   
2. That you possess sufficient knowledge to "fix" it
3. That others will be willing participants in said "fix"
   

Many astutely acknowledge point 1 only to leapfrog point 2 directly to point 3. The problem becomes that point 2 is a major issue, not a minor one worthy of ignoring. As such, they quickly deduce that the real problem is point 3. That others are not willing participants in the Great Fix is their issue with "authority". Any attempt to dissuade the individual from implementing the Great Fix results in a host of responses from denial to derision to outright assault.

Unfortunately for us, many of our "authorities" are little more than over-reaching librarians (No offense meant for librarians) and ardent subscribers to the Great Fix theory. Their self-importance knows few bounds and their quest is true, therefore everyone who disagrees with their point 3 is the enemy.

This is true irregardless of the nature of the division, be it race, politics, gender or faith. When these individuals reach the level of "authority", their audacity often becomes limitless. Countless meetings are held and scores of individuals have died at the hands of those who would fix the world in the last century alone. Most if not all of it a waste of epic proportions.

It is in this spirit then, that we examine these individuals and their next great war. For simplicities sake, we shall call it World War III.

I will assume for the moment that the goal of this war is to effectively end all religion save the Alpha religion. This does not mean that the beliefs will cease to exist, merely that the public and "authoritative" adherence to such beliefs will eventually become the grounds for censure and eventual execution. Put another way it will most likely result in a lack of tolerance for any religion that isn't officially (governmentally) sanctioned.

The religious nature of the new war is not obvious upon first glance, primarily because neither side is trumpeting their religion as their primary reason for entering the war, but that does not deny the reality that it is there. The goal is to create a group think mentality, it's us vs. them . This will be used to not only destroy both sides, but to demonize them as well create legitimacy for their successor.

We shall examine more specifics of the parties involved in part 3.