text: Religion is a political tool of social elites in every culture.  
  
  My limited understanding is that Kaahumanu was interested in breaking the kapu system to increase her political potential after Kamehameha I passed away and she was left with a new young king.  
  
  Leaders all over the world manipulate people through religion to suit their ends.  Henry the VIII wanted a new wife so a whole new church structure was created.  The current apparent death-match between Islam and Christianity is an example.  Our military industrial complex loves the justification for tax expenditures created by little leaders around the world who wind up fanatics and send them at us in fruitless suicide missions.  Both sides (the superpower and the fringe leader) rely on ignorance in order to find participants in their agendas.
  
  Its a truly pathetic drama.
  
  The concept of destroying and creating gods is interesting, it seems like that isn't publicly done, discussed or promoted in modern Hawaii.