Communist, Fascist, and Nazi activists were a well identified source of torch bearing, and murder on a genocidal scale during the 20th century. All done in the name of their glorious leaders. The ovens of Belsen etc etc etc. might well stir your thoughts.
'God, Allah, Yahweh ~ these nightmarish psychopaths attained immortality without having lived. No matter what you call them, they're wrathful, slow to bless and swift to chide. They're mass murderers, psychotic bullies. They exercise the right of life and death. They destroy on a whim. And they provide a wretched example to living gods, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini. Such truly grotesque pieces of work, that it's a matter of some wonder that millions were persuaded not just to believe in them, but to worship them. They did, and off they went to meet their all too obedient death.
There is apparently nobility in pillage and genocide. There is apparently glory to be had in being turned to vapour, in dying in mud, dying of gangrene and poisoned by gas.
To speall it out, these despots get their ideas FROM the 'gods' and 'Gods' who were writ to be lords over life and death of 'mere mortals.















