Re: "There Is Always A State Religion"
Don Kresch <[email protected]>
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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 aa#51 o- DNRC Jedi Slackmaster