Oddbean new post about login | logout Statism really is a religious cult. I thought that was a bit hyperbolic, but nope. People into Statism are the most radicalized, factionalized, violent people ever.
Larkin Rose Is very nearly correct.
He’s also really weird. But then, I suppose, who is isn’t?
What do you worship when you stop worshipping the divine? That'd be no problem, trouble is, when people pray to politicians instead of God, or their gods or gods, politicians sometimes act on it. They certainly do things. And that's rarely good.
this is why separation of church and state was to protect the church from the state and I think why we need separation of state and everything else 😁
Have you ever spent time me examining the first government of Israel? Before the Kings? It’s very interesting.
hmmm not intentionally, podcast series or just bible time?
just reading and thinking. it was the only government structure ever set up by God. It has some interesting implications, and was the only non central government nation to exist for any length of time.
this is ringing some bells now, but the people wanted a king need to revisit and explore
Shared moral law, Rule of Law not of man, local magistrates to decide between conflicting parties, collective law enforcement responsibilities that weren’t outsourced to a 3rd party “enforcer” class. It’s just interesting to look at it through a political structure lens. That people came out of slavery, into the freedom of personal choice and responsibly, with a little detour in the desert on account of being chickenshits.