Ancient Wisdom and Pagan Spirituality

Religion competes for the minds of the people.

A totalitarian government can be one with the religion, the religion is the reason and the cause. The most a secular totalitarian government can tolerate is the established religious power structure being subordinate to the state. Or it can eradicate religion as competition to the total power of the state.

Governments for thousands of years have chosen the former paths. The communists tried the latter. In any case, the goal was the spread of Communism.

Do you think the goal of the Spanish was to spread Christianity? Sure, they had a state-supported contingent trying to convert the heathens, and kill them if necessary. But the goal of the state was not the spread of Christianity. They didn't conquer the New World to add to the numbers of Christians.

When Muslims looked at Persia, India, and pretty much the rest of the world, they were saying "We are going to force you to become Muslim."

When the Spanish looked at the New World, they were saying "We are going to force you to become Spanish."

When the Communists looked at those countries they conquered, they were saying "We are going to force you to become Communist." Just forcing people to be atheist wouldn't work because they could be like me, atheist and against Communism. They needed people to be Communist.

The question way back when meant when did conquest result from someone saying "We are going to force you to become atheists."?

You still don't have a good example.