Religious Empire: God is emperor

Soldier hacked to death in London

There has been heated debates on religion aftermath of London soldier murder. Religion has become an agenda for the news agencies and radio broadcasters to showcase their ability to argue that religion is amazing enterprise but absolutely redundant in the 21st century. I have no comments on this since it is a topic always crawls on the table. I strongly condemn and disagree with the murderers who hacked the soldier to death in Woolwich in the name of religion. I think everyone would agree that no religion promotes violence against another person despite religions have been using this to defend one's own faith. Word 'defend' itself has so negative connotation and in fact it promotes violence or attack on others who do not belong to the defenders religion. This has happened in every religion. Now could anyone tell me which religion survives because of blood?

Religion is man-made by all means despite its claims of revelations and illuminations. Basically religion was formed to control and maintain the society and religion did it perfectly by myriad ways. Let me not put my fingers into these means, because it is a wide topic indeed. If religion controlled and maintained the society in the yesteryears, police and government does the same kind of job today in our society. Therefore, it is obvious that there is no need of a religion to tell people to live morally; is that so? Do we think that police and government is morally correct? Again its another topic altogether on which I have slightest interest. But it is true that there is religious intolerance since police and government has taken the role of controlling the morality of the people. 

There is also another dimension to the religious intolerance among the people. Every religion is a kind of empire with a king or a queen to propose moral rules. There ruler would be a god in every religion. Thus, god created by every religion became different than others because basically religion took the form of an empire. Does this sound absurd? Now this works same as the empire on earth. St. Augustine proposed two kingdoms; earthly and heavenly. Divine kingdom is something that is just and fair but this can be a fantasy of ideology of a utopia (Thomas More). Let me pen on earthly city where most powerful and efficient emperor won the battles to gain victory over other empires. This was done by any means, particularly by means of extreme violence and suppression of the weak. Hence, violence was inevitable and unavoidable in the process of overpowering other empires. 

I would like to apply the above explanation on earthly empires to the religions. Every religion has been using some kind of violence to augment the numbers of devotees. In the process millions of people gave their precious life. Some religions overpowered others whereas little religions died out in the battlefield. And god became a means to use as emperor. God became mere an object to be used to build one's own empire of religion. This is absurd indeed. God is not an object to be used to defend one's own faith. If one believed in ONE God, then why do we need an emperor god? If everyone believed that is there only ONE God, then why do we have to fight in the name of religion?