Centralized Faith: Why the Pope and the Supreme Leader are under attack

There are only two faiths on Earth that can still speak with one voice to hundreds of millions of people: the Catholic Church and Shia Islam. Both are now facing sustained, sophisticated attacks. This is not a coincidence.

The pattern

• Protestant Reformation decentralized Christianity in Europe.

• Result: Kings and nation-states gained power that the Church once held.

• Same playbook appears to be at work against centralized Shia authority in Iran today.

Once you break the last two truly centralized religious authorities, nothing remains that can stand up to the modern state - a great reset.

No other faith has that kind of institutional weight.

The field is cleared for radical nationalism and state power.