The critical issues of humankind are essentially religious.  It is difficult to find any major conflict in history that did not have, at its roots, a burning religious belief.  Religious beliefs are on the forefront today.  What of Old Testament prophecies that the Jews will rule the Bible Lands?  President Bush and the Christian Right have assured us of their religious motivations.  They seem intent on having those lands in Jewish hands.

Are the Jews the Chosen People of God, divinely ordained to be teachers, priests, and rulers over Gentiles?  Or are Jews simply folks like the rest of us, with the same human failings, the same virtues and flaws, and subject to the same motivations, both noble and base?

We at Public Action have our own religious beliefs.  Along with Thomas Jefferson, we believe that all men are created equal and that there are no Divinely Appointed rulers. 

Those who would seize power will do so by controlling history.  To paraphrase George Orwell:  He who controls the present controls the past.  He who controls the past controls the future.

Thus to preserve religious liberty for all, we believe that historical events - no matter what the religious beliefs of the players - should be examined openly in a spirit of free inquiry.  This web page is a study of the struggle between religions and their efforts to control the interpretation of events.  The outcome of that struggle will be of cataclysmic importance to humankind.