Makiavellian America (going on now!)

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ChRecon.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

Extreme religious ideologies are being used to cover political agendas. 

<i>The religion the canny thinkers founded follows the reverse of communism and secular humanism, it poured political and economic ideology into a religion and that combustible mixture produced �Dominionism,� a new political faith that had the additional advantage of insulating the cult from attacks on its political agenda by giving its practitioners the covering to simply cry out, �You�re attacking me for my religious beliefs and that�s religious persecution!�[22]</i>

This is tolernace being abused and exploited.

Look up Leo Strauss (on google or wikipedia) and his philosophies in relationship to the neoconservatives, such as Paul Wolfowitz, in the current US government. What his political philosophy boiled down to was that the elite among society should convince the ignorant commoners that the gov't is following noble, feelgood goals, while keeping it hidden that they are actually engaging in completely amoral policies they believe will better their country. There is a "real" reason behind their policy, and then there is the stuff they tell the public. This is exactly what the neocons in the US have been doing. Either you're in on the game or you're just another rube waving a flag and playing patriot dumbass rightwinger.