Church and State

Church and State have been connected for over 10,000 years. Rulers typically integrated religious beliefs with state priorities to form cultures reinforced by indoctrination, peer pressure and law. In ancient cultures, temple priests and kings were well coordinated and inseparable.

The results are often brutal. Ancient civilizations used human and animal sacrifice to ensure a good harvest and otherwise gain favor with “the gods”.  Wise rulers knew that periods of droughts and floods would occur and they stored food in grain bins. But the religious charade continued. When the water dried up, rulers would move their capitols to where the water was or expand their territory to include arable land.

Rulers have always been able to use religion to their advantage, but how they used it varied from allowing freedom of religion to declaring a State Religion and enforcing it. 

Ancient civilizations’ religious practices were bizzare. It’s really hard to see how the ceremonial killing of an infant can have any effect on ensuring a good harvest, but it was done by several ancient civilizations.

Monotheism is the belief in one God.  Polytheism is the belief in many gods. Pantheism is the belief that God exists in nature.

Polytheistic Egyptians Greeks and Romans fashioned their gods based on their own criteria.  Gods of War, Love, Death, Wine, Sea, Weather, the Sun and everything else were made up to help the faithful with whatever they were dealing with. 

Druidism promotes harmony, connection, and reverence for the natural world. This commonly is extended to include respect for all beings, including the environment itself.

Hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure. Narcissism is the pursuit of selfishness. Sociopaths feel entitled to blame others and concoct scams.

The secular culture in the West is currently a combination of druidism and hedonism imposed by narcissists and sociopaths. They are Democrats, Marxists and Statists.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader