Corruption of Power in Religion

In Almeida's assessment of the Ethiopian christians/jews, he describes the kings as wishy-washy despots. They controlled the divisioning of land and collected taxes off of those lands. Often they would move people around to different lands multiple times in one season (pg 72). In judgements they could rule unfavorably to one side, without rebellion. People were taught to obey the code of Judaism that required them to obey their kings. With this power, the king could do whatever he wanted, and often did. Therefore people when they wanted to complain their mistreatment to the next king, the previous king would issue a proclamation saying that no suing would occur as a result of the retiring king (pg 73). The underlings had to obey because the torah or the kebra negast taught total obedience to kings since they were divinely empowered. Whenever such power is given into only one person, that power will corrupt absolutely.
In the lecture given tonight by Erik Wielenberg about God and morality, he made one major point: if it's possible for a being to mold morality then he/she could mold that reality to justify his evil ways. Then everyone would be taught to think that living as a slave and working for the powerful being was a good task and that his immoral actions were right. They would never know the difference. Therefore the actions of an all powerful being like God generally are not reliable because they could be immoral. However, that does not mean that there are no morals. We can still make our own morals by relying on each other to form them. In this context, following a king because the Bible or the Torah said so is not good enough reason because the morality of God is uncertain. This means that the major religions of monotheism may not be truthful. This could mean a shift to wholly unholy morality codes. This means that no higher being commanded them. We may not have religious wars any more, but more land control wars. Hopefully everything could settle down then and finally cause peace.