I maintain that it is the militant atheists found at the heart of these matters who have co-opted religion for geo-political purpose only to perpetuate conflict and destroy each of the faiths involved by perverting them to violence in the name of God.
You maintain this conspiracy notion notwithstanding I quoted back to you from Paul Johnson that this notion is nonsensical. Indeed, the suggestion by the "militant atheists" is that it was a world-wide capitalist conspiracy which created the State of Israel. So while you're fantasizing over the latest conspiracy of "militant atheists" and "triangulation" we'll treat this issue with the comity and intelligence it deserves.
I feel that were we to address the conflict in those universal terms of justice, Good, Evil and that human solidarity and compassion which transcends our differences, we might have the ability to better target the real sources of our conflict, confusion and error.
This sounds like a universalist and collectivist ideology surely the kind thinking which "militant atheists" just love to revel in.
You think it was by chance that Poland (now slipping communists back into power) co-opted the term "Solidarity" as it staged for the West one of the most ostensibly Catholic and genuine deceptions of perestroika?
Hardly.
This is exactly what I'm talking about, Lent.
As a student of the gramscian-marxist revolution within the Catholic Church, I am only too well aware of how handily the truth can be perverted -- particularly in language -- to mislead the faithful.