

Religion is used to control the masses either through coercion or through the rigid structuring of the peoples' lives. The Taliban is the same - the elite are exempted from the strict rules because they set the rules.

By this I mean totalitarian, religious-focused, faith-based, and rulled by the elite. The most important point I took from the reading was that there is a well-hidden movement within the Christian fundamentalists that has positioned itself to influence the government of this and other countries toward the goal of imposing a Taliban-like society on everyone. This is a scary book when you really think about what the author has researched and presented to us.
