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This "Babylon the Great" is clearly a religious organization

  1

Isaiah 47:1, 12, 13
Step down! Sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground, no throne,
daughter of the Chaldaeans, for never again will you be called tender and delicate.
12 Keep to your spells then, and all your sorceries,
at which you have worked so hard since you were young.
Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will strike terror!
13 You have had many tiring consultations:
let the astrologers come forward now and save you,
the star-gazers who announce month by month what will happen to you next.

  2

Jeremiah 50:1, 2, 38
The word that Yahweh spoke against Babylon,
against the country of the Chaldaeans, through the prophet Jeremiah.
2 Announce it to the nations, proclaim it, hoist a signal and proclaim it,
making no secret of it, say, 'Babylon is captured, Bel disgraced, Marduk shattered.
(Her idols are disgraced, her Obscenities shattered.)'
38 Drought on her waters: may they dry up! For it is a country of idols,
and they are mad about those bogeys of theirs!

  3

Genesis 10:8, 9
Cush fathered Nimrod who was the first potentate on earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter in the eyes of Yahweh, hence the saying,
'Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in the eyes of Yahweh'.

  4

Genesis 11:2-4, 8
Now, as people moved eastwards they found a valley in the land of Shinar where they settled.
3 They said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire.'
For stone they used bricks, and for mortar they used bitumen.
4 'Come,' they said, 'let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top reaching heaven.
Let us make a name for ourselves, so that we do not get scattered all over the world.'
8 Yahweh scattered them thence all over the world, and they stopped building the city.

  5

Isaiah 14:4, 13, 14
you will recite this satire on the king of Babylon and say:
'How did the tyrant end? How did his arrogance end?
13 You who used to think to yourself: I shall scale the heavens;
higher than the stars of God I shall set my throne.
I shall sit on the Mount of Assembly far away to the north.
14 I shall climb high above the clouds, I shall rival the Most High."

  6

Daniel 5:2-4, 23
Having tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave orders for the gold and
silver vessels to be brought which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken
from the sanctuary in Jerusalem, so that the king, his noblemen,
his wives and the women who sang for him could drink out of them.
3 The gold and silver vessels taken from the sanctuary of the Temple of God
in Jerusalem were brought in, and the king, his noblemen,
his wives and the women who sang for him drank out of them.
4 They drank their wine and praised their idols of gold and silver,
of bronze and iron, of wood and stone.
23 You have defied the Lord of heaven,
you have had the vessels from his Temple brought to you, and you, your noblemen,
your wives and the women singing for you have drunk your wine out of them.
You have praised gods of gold and silver, of bronze and iron, of wood and stone,
which can neither see, hear nor understand;
but you have given no glory to the God in whose hands are your breath itself and all your fortunes.

  7

Revelation 18:23
never again will shine the light of the lamp in you,
never again will be heard in you the voices of bridegroom and bride.
Your traders were the princes of the earth, all the nations were led astray by your sorcery.

False Religion is Identified by:

being like ancient Babylon, a profoundly religious city
that practiced false religion in opposition to the true God, Jehovah
and her "spiritistic practices." shows her to be a religious organization.