Guilt and lack of guilt

If anything, Christianity has done a great job of instilling people with a sense of wrongdoing, spreading the idea that people are basically sin filled and wretched, and should always seek forgiveness and humility.  While this is certainly popular among the poor and lower class, the opposite seems to work in favor of the rich and wealthy.  Either higher-ups having a knowing sense of what is wrong and choose to not feel negative about it, or they are sociopaths. 

How else do you explain the meat industry denying any wrongoing in business, or politicians accepting bribes and gifts without ever speaking out, or laws that are passed due to corporate and lobbyist influence and not the benefit of the people?  Money seems to be the ultimate confidence booster, allowing people at the top to feel above the law, or to become the exception and not the rule. 

I believe a lower class is being put "in its place" by feeling guilty and having a defined moral compass, while the upper class prefer it stay that way as it gives them less competition.  Thus you get more corrupt politicians and CEOs who do not feel guilty over certain actions, while those who feel a deep sense of right and wrong rarely ever get in those positions to make significant change. 

This is just one example of the attitude of guiltlessness: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/

Religions spread because they are useful for political power. It has always been true and remains true today.

http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=792

Meritocracy, LOL

To term it differently, religion and power-mongering are mutually beneficial.

Worker bees can leave,
Even drones can fly away.
The queen is their slave.

I don't think it's the religion that's the problem. It's the use of cults and indoctrination to whip up the masses into a paraqnoid frenzy against skapegoats etc etc..

When you wash off the bullshit it is obvious that this is a battle between tyranny and liberty not christianity and islam or whatever religious debate you are engaged in.

You are free to think what you want in the US, think you are all high and mighty if you want, go right ahead! Cultures naturally become more intelligent and less cult-like when they are under liberty and there are no better ideas than liberty so you can't force people to be intelligent through tyranny. Unless they are exceptionally stupid and considerring the stupidity of the public it seems that the libertarian civilisations can consist of pretty stupid people.

Vigilance is the price of liberty etc..