Thanks for the interesting historical additions. I am not, however, approaching this from a political perspective. What I said applies to Indian, Japanese, Na

Thanks for the interesting historical additions. I am not, however, approaching this from a political perspective. What I said applies to Indian, Japanese, Native American, even Abrahamic and possibly many others. All of these have been used in the past by charlatans of various kinds. The kinds of charlatans I'm referring to are not strictly political. Honestly, I was thinking of cheap cults and schemes (like I previously illustrated by my Häagen-Dazs comparison in another comment).