About Time Someone Said This

The political, media, and educational classes are willfully ignorant of world religion, mainly because they think the world has intellectually and morally evolved beyond the need for it.  Or, more likely, that they've evolved beyond it.  That ignorance has a cost:

Besides the fact that the Pentagon hasn’t a clue how to deal with ISIS militarily, because all it knows how to do is drop bombs, the assumption shining through here is that the Sunni-Shiite civil war could be settled if only its participants were involved in the “global economy.” The Establishment cannot grasp that religion, race, and nationalism are far more powerful motivators than is economics. Globalism, with its hollowing out of the state, is in fact paving the way for more primal war, fought for age-old reasons by entities that are not states.