I keep thinking of the crusades as a prime example of higher power gone wrong(and just how bad humans can get, and also that happened way back when and all). It's just interesting to me though that you say we need a higher power, and that higher power is often the government that is corrupt.

No worries about rants, I like reading them and trying to get myself to not just see another's point of view, but to own it, try and make it mine and get an even deeper sense of what's going on behind the words. And sleep well.