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.

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Right, so when al-Qaeda wants to impose their theology on people, it's bad, but when Focus on the Family tries to do the exact same thing, it's "upholding moral values."

"Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter." (Richard Dawkins)