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>> There is something inside of humans that has for centuries made religion very popular.

Yes.

>> Except part of the point of a democratic society is to leave the hard decisions of state to a small group of people who are ideally best equipped to handle it.

In a representative democracy like America yes, (a democratic republic actually) yet a pure democracy seeks majority compromise.

>> Larger ones have hordes of academics, journalists, philosophers, etc., proclaiming the moral righteousness of their use of lethal force and intimidation (see the "Bush Doctrine").

It plays well for the Democrats too:

http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/

""Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors," said Clinton."