9 Dec 2022 1:10 pm
How do you square that with you comment that monarchy was always a religious institution?FOS » 08 Dec 2022, 11:02 pm » wrote: ↑ i do not agree at all. religion and nationalism were always at odds. And they still are.
in fact this has been ESPECIALLY true ever since charles darwin.
I agree it always was though the connection was inherently uneasy. When popular government arrived religion still remained at the center. In the United States it's "in God we trust" not the people we elect. Or so we pretend.