TO: RELIGIOUS FANTASISTS WHO DREAM OF WORLD DOMINATION
How Many Nuclear Weapons Do Nation-Sponsors of Fanatics Possess?
-Attorney Patryk Utulu*

In different ways the question has been asked of me: Does our world still need religion? And I have given variations of this considered response: It is indisputable that unspeakable acts of barbarity have been (continually) done in the name of religion. As it is also indisputable that religion has facilitated some of the earliest forms of mass awareness, mass formal education, mass literacy and the formal harmonization of societal rules that helped to articulate life and human blood as too sacrosanct to spill, except in the service or to the 'glory' of an extant deity (God/Allah/Yahweh).

Religion was a major force in the transformation of subsistence Homo sapiens, to the acquisitive 'modern humans'. So vital was religion to our collective human growth that even when the concept of “nations” replaced the extant deity (God) as the immediate remedial authority to fear, (that is, even when jail replaced hell), national laws worldwide still relied heavily on religious language to launch.

To me therefore, all things considered, religion has been a net plus for humanity: useful and still needed by many.

My consistent premise is that humans make religion good, troublesome or hated. Even nonreligious people do not instinctively hate religion. Any religion becomes hated or mocked ONLY as people perceive the antisocial words and actions of the leaders and followers of that religion. Here is an indisputable fact that those who dream of religious world-domination must understand. There are 4,200 religions worldwide and 2,000 of them are older than many of the so-called "great" religions. If the much more ancient religions could escape extermination in those yore of impunity nothing today can destroy them. So, any religion that wants to be taken seriously must share the vision of a multi-religious world or continue to subject itself to lazy absurdities. NO RELIGION HAS EVER DOMINATED THE WORLD!

NOT THAT FACTS WOULD EVER TROUBLE THE FANTASISTS. Like others before them, today’s rabid religious fantasists will continue to congregate and hallucinate of a future in which their brand of faith dominates the world. They will entertain no facts and no doubts. They will recite favorable quotations without date and out of context. They will "share" selective self-serving articles looking NOT for enlightening debate but for like-minded fantasists who would reinforce their blissful ignorance of our varied world.

Yes, all world-domination fantasists suffer from ten major disadvantages:

(1) They sing only to their own choir. That is, they avoid talking to people who would challenge their fantasy with hard facts; (2) They circulate religion-growth statistics fed to them by quack ‘researchers’ who do not factor in variables; (3) They talk as if other world religions would stop growing or as if followers of other faiths would stop having children; (4) They shut their eyes to evidence that the world is becoming increasingly less religious with nearly one billion atheists and agnostics; (5) They fail to see how their own religious actions damage their cause and turn off billions of people who otherwise would be receptive to faith; (6) They are willfully blind to the fact that many religions are also “cultural identity," making those religions immune to external domination because the followers cannot lose the religions without losing their cultural identity; (7) They refuse to recognize the great human migration and that religion gives way to the imperative of survival and assimilation the further away people move from ancestral homelands; ( They ignore the hard evidence that less than 60% of children of immigrants follow their parents’ religion and less than 38% of second generation immigrants follow their grandparents’ religion; (9) They refuse to consider that even those who profess no religion would fight for their “home” religion if it is threatened by an alien religion; and (10) They ignore the reality that any religion that refuses to evolve and adapt to modernity will always struggle to connect with the logic of modern generations.

1. Christianity (General) — 2.04 Billion Followers
2. Islam (General) — 1.23 Billion Followers
3. Catholicism — 1.14 Billion Followers
4. Hinduism (General) — 828 Million Followers
5. Agnosticism — 639 Million Followers
6. Buddhism (General) — 367 Million Followers
7. Atheism — 150 Million Followers
8. Anglicanism — 85.4 Million Followers
9. Sikhism — 23.8 Million Followers
10. Seventh Day Adventists — 16 Million Followers
11. Mormonism — 15 Million Followers
12. Judaism — 14.5 Million Followers
**World class researchers at FindTheBest.com**

The statistics above reflect the top 12 most popular faiths. Look at it again. What do you see? Plain figures? More than just figures it shows that global religions are evenly balanced out DESPITE 10,000 YEARS OF GENOCIDAL CONQUESTS. IN OTHER WORDS, 4,200 RELIGIONS HAVE SURVIVED OUR 10,000 YEARS OF EMPIRES, POWER AND IMPUNITY. THUS, ANY FANTASIES OF A WORLD DOMINATED BY ANY ONE RELIGION IS AS DELUSIONAL AS HOPING TO RIDE YOUR GRANDFATHER’S 19TH CENTURY BICYCLE TO THE MOON.

Would world-domination fantasists ever wake up? No. Delusion is too much of an opiate to give up. So they will continue meeting in Internet chat rooms to continue spreading, inhaling and willfully intoxicating on the primitive delusion that they will soon dominate the world despite that many of them have never been to an airport.

SOMEHOW, THEY NEVER ASK THEMSELVES TWO KEY QUESTIONS:

(1). How could you ever dominate the world using Telephony/Satellite and Internet technology invented/built and controlled NOT by you but by nations that can selectively turn off the technology as needed, and throw you back to the Stone Age?
(2). How could you ever dominate nations that possess, have used, and are willing and ready to use nuclear weapons?

Human history shows that when threatened, nations will exterminate those groups that pose existential threat without possessing "nuclear" countermeasures. And as I have consistently written, Allah/God hates hypocrisy. So, HOW any religion is PRACTICED is far more consequential than what its followers claim in public.

HERE ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE EXCLUSIVE ‘NUCLEAR CLUB’

(1). Nuclear-powered nations: China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, UK and USA
(2). Nuclear-sharing nations (with France/Israel): Germany and the Netherlands
(3). Retained nuclear technology nations/can make nuclear bomb within 6 months: Ukraine and South Africa

VIEW THE LIST AGAIN. ARE YOU STILL ITCHING TO DOMINATE NATIONS UNDER TREATY UMBRELLA OF THESE 13 NUCLEAR NATIONS? YES? NO?

OK, so the next time you fantasize about your religion dominating the world you had better envision the nightmare that will befall you and your fellow fantasists when nuclear hell-fire is dumped on your heads.

Let the conversation continue.

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Attorney Patryk A. Utulu*
U.S.-based Attorney & Strategic Communications Specialist
Global Defense Analyst and Global Events Commentator
Executive Vice President, Nigerian Diaspora-North America
Executive Director, The Center 4 Community Empowerment & Lifeskills, Inc
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