Re: "There Is Always A State Religion"

Don Kresch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.society.liberalism,alt.atheism,alt.politics.democrats.d,talk.politics.guns
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On Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:18:35 GMT, Scott Hoge <[email protected]>
scrawled in blood:

>On 2026-07-28, Found Elsewhere <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> No man rules alone. You need a tribe, or a synthetic tribe. For
>> a large state a natural tribe is inherently too small. A faith
>> is a synthetic tribe. An army needs a faith, and a state needs
>> a faith.
>
>That statement exemplifies the /fallacy of affirming the
>consequent/.
>
>1. All faiths are synthetic tribes.
>2. A state is a synthetic tribe.
>3. Therefore, the state is a faith.
>
>Compare:
>
>1. All pink fairy armadillos are mammals.
>2. John is a mammal.
>3. Therefore, John is a pink fairy armadillo.
>
>-- Scott Hoge

	And yet theism and statism are psychopathologically identical.

Don
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