Chapter Thirty/"Babylon the Great Has Fallen!" - Babylon's Disgraceful Fall - Continue

 Babylon the Great has also made conquests, but for the most part, these have been more subtle. She has "made all the nations drink? by using the wiles of a prostitute, committing religious fornication with them. She has enticed political rulers into alliances and friendships with her. Through religious allurements, she has schemed political, commercial, and economic oppression. She fomented religious persecution and religious wars and crusades, as well as national wars, for purely political and commercial reasons. And she has sanctified these wars by saying they are God's will.

Religions involvement in the wars, and political politics of this 20th century is common knowledge-as in Shinto, Japan, Hindu, India, Buddhist, Vietnam, "Christian" Northern Ireland, and Latin America, as well as others-not to overlook the army chaplains' part on both sides of the two world wars in urging young men to slaughter on another. A classic example of the philandering of Babylon the Great is the share she had in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, in which at least 600,000 people were killed. This bloodspilling was provided by supporters of the Catholic clergy and their allies, in part because of the wealth and position of the church was threatened by Spain's legal government.

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