Banks were created to manage and create money? News to me!
Federal reserve banks are a
good thing because they work independently of the government. Where do you reckon the government gets most of it's play money? Isn't from taxation. Taxation is one of the many revenue streams a government has to pay off it's debt to the Reserve bank. Honestly I prefer a nationalised bank controlling the money in our country than a group of Politicians that change every 4 years.
War is and always has been for profit, at least from it's outset intention by the aggressor force. It was only way back in the dawn of civilisation that battle was for ritualistic purposes (where they used to call it a day if someone actually got seriously injured or killed). Ever since people started growing crops instead of hunting, people or area X had better living conditions than people of area Y. That's where the step between protecting your borders with a show of strength turns into attacking and invading someone elses land for your gain happens. Even still for most of human history battles were decided by displays of force and dominance, not necessarily annihilating the opposing army.
The big problem comes from a fairly modern leap of teaching people how to fight to teaching people how to kill.
(A bit of an elaboration on this point: The gap between the two was discovered by some Major who's name escapes me after WW2, the first large-scale war where men weren't fighting shoulder to shoulder. Because they didn't have the constant peer-pressure to fight if your fellow soliders weren't right next to you, most of them didn't because, like normal people, they didn't want to kill another human being. Long story short, training of recurits changed their focus on teaching how to fight to teaching how to kill a short time after WW2).
Because we're now able to
kill a shitload of people with very little effort thanks to technology and conditional training, that's a problem that human civilisation hasn't come across before. This is the problem that I have with modern war, not because we're doing it for a profit.
Not even going to
touch the one about Jesus. I'm agnostic and I'll leave it at that.
