Ted, you've opened fresh thinking: People winding up in slave labour camps because they believe in God, a "jump" from belief to totalitarianism.

Your notion is as good or better than mine because I don't know if and where God enters into it although I never hoisted aboard God's Eternal Plan.

Ken says Democrats are Marxist as well as Leninists and Maoist, implying that all Democrats are tarred with some heathen brush. Does he know that?

Has anyone considered the evidence that nationalism seems a larger influence than faith? Catholics and Protestants killed co-religionists in both world wars.

There was no theological dispute between the Allies and Germany and Japan. There's an argument today the major religions arose in reaction to inequality of early ruling classes, and IS itself may be consequence of it as well.