I am a communist. We are a patchwork of heritage you would be confused of having lived your entire life as a slave. Okay, let us revisit this history of religion. As it existed in the mirror of backwards how much backward can one go, Prayer. Mutiny. War. The Soldiership. The church. Culture ushering in genocide.  Pledging allegiance to Our Dark Failures of Hatred have become Center Stage as if in shining boots for the devil. He is still the devil. In the 7th Century, with its religious wars, its fire, its dust, its rivers of blood plotted out in some maps of the secret maps and every culture of Homo sapiens designed to build a rendering of hope among the smattering of stars out there, they had counted them as they invented mathematics, and even languidly filling space as almost exactly the oversized hill of ants in accord with the power of gravity, the 7th Century asks Catholics to pray that the Pope will strengthen his crusade against all his enemies.