The nature of religious sentiment was quite simple: founders demanded the masses' boundless worship and obedience. Once people accepted a creed, they adopted a certain attitude when spreading it—anyone who refused those beliefs was regarded as an enemy.
They could unbelievably make hundreds of millions bow before them. Nowadays, these great figures who ruled people's minds no longer had altars, yet they still controlled humanity.
The "hard enslavement" of the old colonial era had become "soft enslavement." On the surface, colonizers granted "slaves" freedom and independence, but in truth, they continued to plunder them.
They did not want people to understand this, so they created confusion. For example, they insisted on ranking races according to the height of their nose bridges, artificially creating inequality before preaching equality. Or they cultivated a sense of competition, keeping people locked in endless conflict. Meanwhile, the slave owners could calmly squeeze out whatever resources they wanted and lie back earning money without a care.
It was an ideal state, but reality did not quite live up to expectations. After all, the "slaves" were not as stupid as the slave owners imagined.
Unfortunately, some slaves saw through the scheme but did not think of resisting or defending justice. Instead, they wanted to join the slave owners in their corruption and lie back earning money together. But the slave owners would not accept them. Even if they did, it would only be a tiny minority. Just look at the demographics of affluent American neighborhoods.
The early slaves transported to the Americas had been used to grow cotton. Now they were no longer needed to grow cotton, nor were they needed to take up guns and fight. What use was there in keeping them around?
For a long time, America had used eugenic theories when considering immigration