Re: "There Is Always A State Religion"
Mitchell Holman <[email protected]>
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Don Kresch <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: > 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. The state supports the church, the church supports the state. "Obey the government , for God is the one who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the laws of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow." Romans 13:1-4