Anybody else feel like we’re headed toward the Holy American Empire? Not just in the literal word play sense of theocratic imperialism, but also that the theocratic imperial center will be surrounded by only loosely connected states as civil rights become distinct state to state?
I get the impression that Christianity is not the goal but the means to an end: destroy public education, for instance, or strike up fear of the other in order to keep the oligarchy going. So, yes?
Giving room to actual Christians is a friendly hand masking a strangling grip.
What Trevor’s alluding to above (I think) is more like the authority of the Pope just before the rise of nationalist monarchies in Europe. Even though the king ruled a territory, all education was by the Church. The people lived their lives according to church communities, holy days, common teachings, etc. Christendom.
I don’t know if that’s where we’re headed. I get the feeling that kind of thing is a temporary model until the entire country is completely in the grip of an oligarchy that’ll use any idea, consistency be damned, to keep people from throwing them out. Divided we rule, etc.
