[Platt] But if you believe in the supreme value of the state, you can't believe in the supreme value of God. If you believe in state supremacy you are likely to also be an atheist.
[Arlo] Not according to the Monarchs and Theocrats who viewed, historically, the Supreme Value of the State to be the manifest reality of God's Will. I seem to recall the "Holy Roman Empire" being quite a profound example of believing combining God and state. I also seem to recall Europe's monarchs for the better part of Western History to have no problem conflating the Supremacy of God with the Supremacy of The State, sacrificing and executing dissidents towards the state in the name of God. As I said, this attempt by "religion" to latch onto secular enlightenment's ideas of "freedom" is naught but a pathetic attempt by a castrated dogma to align itself with the philosophy that caused its demise. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
