Divine Power Quotes
The Barbary Pirates of Algiers, led and controlled by the Bey or Dey (king) had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. The only thing that the Algerians seemed to be interested in was money and religion.
Hubbard had a business based on his self-help book, Dianetics. He turned this into a pseudo-religion called Scientology which makes large sums of money years after Hubbard died.
Although this is one of Marx’s more famous quotations, he had Napoleon Bonaparte {39959} to thank for the concept of the use of religion as a political tool. A Napoleon contemporary Chartist, Charles Kingsley, {441604} in 1848 also made the analogy between religion and opium for political control.
