We in America did not invent the monotheism existentialism; the God concept grew from environment peculiar to the Middle East.
Moses first had his scribe historicize the Hebrew God in written language.
Prominent in Pentateuch principals was Abraham, a seed line from Adam lived at Ur on the great Euphrates.
Abraham awakened the call to righteousness and incentive lost in Adam.
He removed the 'flaming sword' to the east of Eden, and thus allowed righteousness to again enter into the heart of Eden.
The Abraham Incentive was an encouragement to subsequent seed line progeny gain inheritance.
Yet, the path was always a self-destruct course but on a much smaller scale than today's burgeoning populations; humans, always striving to better their fellows, managed to arrogate and seize the original Abraham inheritance motive to their own specification.
To grasp the enormity of world obsession is to recognize the three monotheism branches as roots of an unending conquest.
An overt action usually involves one person or one small group of people, but religion conquests involve huge armies; following the herd instinct, they stampede from their dormant domicile toward a lesser existence, frightened of themselves, and pursuing the unknown.
Obviously, we have not improved much over the centuries.
About 4000 years ago, Abraham designated two sons as recipients of two very unlike destinies -- to almost total disregard for six other sons.
At odds in Genesis, the two sons, Isaac and Ishmael, produced progeny in distant camps, still at odds in present monotheist ambiance, some 4000 years later.
In the interim, over an 1800-year period, beginning some 900 years later to Abraham, Jew became the nominal reference to God worshippers -- at odds with the greater Israel tribespeople.
Christianity soon evolved, welcomed Israel back into the fold, and ran its course -- in no way influenced by the outcast Ishmael until about 600 years following Temple destruction in A.
D.
70.
Then, an Arabian, Mohammed, discovered his fortunes vastly improved with his consent to marry an older woman who just so happened to own a prosperous trading company, complete with many camels, slaves, accouterment, and other assets; he soon engaged to conduct this considerable enterprise.
These trading caravans traveled back and forth between Yemen, Egypt, Mecca, Israel, and as far away as Baghdad -- from Nile to Euphrates.
Mohammed, then, advanced in stature though handed around to foster homes in youthful indistinction.
As Mohammed prospered, so must he have suffered from his endeavors; for, according to the record, he began to hallucinate and see visions in the cave he often holed up in near Mecca.
He began to envision Islam and falling in love: winning betrothal of a six-year old girl and taking her as wife at nine.
Along about this time, a Jewish-Christian taught Mohammed all he could teach about the old theology; and Mohammed grey in stature and lifestyle.
Mohammed and Islam believers became extremely successful at raiding other caravansaries, Bedouin encampments, Oases, and Jewish villages.
Camel, sheep, and donkey herds increased through the many depredations and female captives became a comodity to bargain loyalty and material goods.
It was almost paradise.
Typically harsh, unforgiving, and sometimes benevolent, he often shared his bounty of captured tradegoods, animals, and females with accompaning jihadists, who conducted his marauding bands.
However, his ostentatious purpose exhibited a benevolent streak; he no longer killed or tortured enemy victims if they converted to his newly foundreligion, Islam.
With these incentives, his following grew by leaps and bounds -- to army size -- to all Middle East provinces, gaining bounty on every hand.
Also descended from Abraham, the other two branches, boasting seed line exclusivity, Judaism and Christianity continued much on the same path, conquering the entirety of North and South America: destroying some sixty to one-hundred million natives of the new land.
All monotheism based explorations, like Mohammed forces, mightily quested for gold, land, and other possessions also.
Conquest by whatever means and whatever motivation was a crime against humanity and an indication of our capability.
When holding the upper hand, we can grow by leaps and bounds.
Having usurped the original theology, Judaism diversified; Christianity garnered funds to further Catholic and Protestant cause, while Islam diversified into Shiite/Sunni divisions.
Multiple sects and diverse interpretation cells proliferated through the years into present denominational incertitude.
Antagonisms grew over millennia, and inestimable millions died to extend or uphold particular disciplines; which causes were always secondary to the underlying and more important conquest motive.
Now, in the age of mass media, truth emerges to illuminate the Abraham Incentive in new light! Semantically, in Bible, Torah, and Qu'ran provisos, we do not take the same path toward Abraham inheritance; for, such inheritance was awarded long past and posited in Messianic timeliness via fulfillments proposed in time frame set forth in the immutable legal-historical template.
Such extension into the present is hindered by Ten Age finiteness to the time and to Abraham prerogatives now out of date.
Despite this given, the devout ignore Bible limitation to its outstanding contract, to its covenant; therefore, path to conquest or peace can be brought only by cessation of blind devotion to this obsolete cause.
Solution to the world's terrorist problem is not insurmountable; we need only to shed our metaphysical skin, emerge from darkness, and find something else to conquer.
But what would be our incentive? Without religion, assault would be a crime.
Without the Abraham Incentive, there can exist no incentive.
We have toured the world's biggest avenue, the path to conquest.
But its true scope prompts a larger expedition, how can we induce the three disciplines to cease and desist?