Pseudo-religious dominance-scheme

A pseudo-religious dominance-scheme is a scheme in which
a person or group of persons invents an insincere pseudo-religion,
usually via using fraudulent revelations, fraudulent miracles, and/or other fraud,
for the purpose of using the pseudo-religion as a means
by which to assert dominance over other people.
That dominance-assertion is typically done via facilitating the murder and/or torture of
such innocent people as apostates, heretics, non-believers,
adulterers, incesters, animal-copulators, disobedient children, and/or other types,
and/or by using intimidating coerciv lies of eternal torture in an imaginary eternal afterlife
so as to coerce people into believing and/or acting in a particular way,
and/or by getting people to revere, deify, and/or obey the person who created the pseudo-religion.
The most populous pseudo-religious dominance-schemes are
Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism (aka Islam).

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