Reply #124: No, religious conflict (including secular anti-religious sentiment) is a tool to divide the people.

[Leopolds Ghost]

The oligarchs are not religious. They realize that they would be going to hell for their conspicuous consumption and their treatment of employees and helpers, if they once believed in hell, so they choose to believe in moral relativism instead.

The reason wealthy and upper-middle class people tend to be so secular is the same reason they tend to be so non-committal about truth and morality.

"The US tried to assassinate so-and-so? I'm sure the truth is more complicated. Don't fault our system, son, it's what pays your bills. And don't insult your mother by refusing our money, either"