"[T]he religion of Babylon—one of the world's oldest, continuously surviving religions—is thriving as never before in every sector of contemporary American life... It, and not Christianity, is the real religion of America...
In the Babylonian myth, creation is an act of violence ... Order is established by means of disorder ... such a myth reflects a highly centralized state in which the king rules as Marduk's representative on earth. Resistance to the king is treason against the gods. Unquestioning obedience is the highest virtue, and order the highest religious value...
Salvation is politics: identifying with the god of order against the god of chaos, and offering oneself up for the holy war required to impose order and rule on the peoples round about. And because chaos threatens repeatedly, in the form of barbarian attacks, an ever-expanding imperial policy is the automatic correlate of Marduk's asecndancy over all the gods.
Do you begin to sense where all this is leading?"
