When obedience becomes holy, war becomes destiny. 🇯🇵🔥
State Shinto turned loyalty to the Emperor into sacred duty — shaping military culture from the Meiji era through WWII. Civil religion meets total war.
#History #Japan #CivilReligion #Brewminate
⚔️ NEW POEM DROP ⚔️
“Enamored by the monuments of marred memory…”
A field poem from Little Round Top—about myth, memory, and the seduction of patriotic reverence.
Read Athena’s Siren Song now. 👇
#Poetry #Tittu #TittuPoetry #tristanrobertlange #WarPoetry #CivilReligion #Gettysburg
Plague, "savages," and genocide... reflecting on lies our teachers taught us about the original Thanksgiving before we dig in this holiday...
#thanksgiving #propaganda #civilreligion
open.substack.com/pub/letsmake...
3/ Then reflects on poppy’s hegemonizing function in British
#civilreligion, calling for commemorations to better accommodate deeper reflections on the causes of #war &
#militarism (instead of remaining quietly compatible or even complicit).
Ronald #Reagan wouldn’t be welcome in today’s #GOP #cultofpersonality, Mini-n-NC. I often disagreed with him, but I always believed he was a president who protected the #Constitution. He pushed the envelope on our collective #civilreligion, but not like the #Putin #FifthColumn #apparatchik #Trump.
The U.S. “ #Founders” were mostly #Deists, not #Christian.
Robert #Bellah, "Civil Religion in America." robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm
#civilreligion #democracy #Rousseau #Washington #Jefferson #Adams #Providence #God #Lincoln #Kennedy #Johnson #Obama #God
#Trump #FifthColumn #idolatry #apostasy
Meditation on Triggers for Civil Religion
Surreal Experience As an American “military age male”, there have been 3 times in my adult life during which headline news and civil circumstances have left me to feel uncomfortable inside my own skin: 9/11 Election Night 2016 Jan 6th My dad read a lot […]
From 'Apocalypse Now!': https://bit.ly/4nhDEcn
#Apocalypse
#Revelation
#CivilReligion
What does the biblical book of the Revelation mean to you and your faith? And what do the rise of Christian nationalism, civil religion, and the Revelation have to do with each other?
My short answer is everything.
Here's why: https://bit.ly/4nhDEcn
#Revelation
#CivilReligion
From 'Apocalypse Now!': https://bit.ly/4nhDEcn
#Revelation
#CivilReligion
#Prophecy
Disobey in advance. Resist as a dissident.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1847)
#DisobeyInAdvance #dissident #disobedience #dissidence #discourse #civildisobedience #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights
#AleksandrDugin #Authoritarianism #ByzantinePolitics #CivilReligion #ChristianNationalism #ChurchAndState #ConstitutionalRevision #CulturalImperialism #DivineState #Eurasianism #HolyRus #Iconography #Kirill #KremlinTheology #MilitantOrthodoxy #MilitaryCathedral #MysticalNationalism #NeoChristendom
the Senate and People of Civitates Foederatae Americae
#SPQCFA #WordsMeanThings #BodyPolitic #CivilReligion #culture #history
Disobey in advance. Resist as a dissident.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #dissident #disobedience #dissidence #Resistance #discourse #civildisobedience #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights
Disobey in advance. Resist as a dissident.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #Dissident #disobedience #dissidence #discourse #dissident #civildisobedience #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights
Disobey in advance as a dissident-in-waiting.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #DissidentInWaiting #civildisobedience #disobedience #discourse #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights #dissident
Just do it: disobey in advance.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #liberty #civildisobedience #disobedience #discourse #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights #civilwar? #slavery #servile #obey
Just do it: disobey in advance.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #liberty #civildisobedience #disobedience #discourse #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights #civilwar? #slavery #servile #obey
Just do it: disobey in advance.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #liberty #civildisobedience #disobedience #discourse #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights #civilwar? #slavery #servile #obey
Why can’t we disobey in advance?
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #liberty #democracy #civildisobedience #disobedience #discourse #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights #slavery #servile #obey
We must “disobey in advance.”
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #liberty #civildisobedience #disobedience #discourse #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights #civilwar? #slavery #slave #servile #obey
"Faith in faith, which I contend sums up America’s de facto civil religion.... helped bring us to a lower-trust, more authoritarian, deeply unhealthy society riddled with scammers and conspiracy theories, some of whom are about to run the federal government." #exvangelical #religion #civilreligion
Why can’t we disobey in advance?
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #liberty #civildisobedience #disobedience #discourse #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights #civilwar? #servile #slavery #obey
Why can’t we disobey in advance?
@timothysnyder.bsky.social?
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau
#DisobeyInAdvance #civildisobedience #disobedience #discourse #civildiscourse #civility #civilreligion #civilrights #civilwar #servile
3/ Then reflects on poppy’s hegemonizing function in British #civilreligion, calling for commemorations to better accommodate deeper reflections on the causes of #war & #militarism (instead of remaining quietly compatible or even complicit).
If Obama had committed to live-streamed town halls in 2009-12, then people would have seen the creepy weirdos from their neighborhoods earlier on and rejected them quicker.
#ParticipatoryLeadership is critical to the #American #CivilReligion.
https://mastodon.social/@digiphile/113023671549766211
Caesar lib Cicero stateman Cato con Catiline wicked
"the Catilines and the Caesars of the community...who leading the dance to the tune of liberty without law, endeavor to intoxicate the people with delicious but poisonous draughts to render them the easier victims of their rapacious ambition; the vicious and the fanatical of every class who are ever found the willing or the deluded followers of those seducing and treacherous leaders."
When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now? Marcus Tullius Cicero
"January 6, 2021 was a Catilinarian conspiracy against the American Republic." Sampath Panini Meditation on Triggers of the Civil Religion PANINID.SUBSTACK.COM
The #American #Catiline lives and wants to hold a triumph.
Catiline was wicked.
#CivilReligion #history
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/113017383564160585
This is <10 min CNN interview clip takes quite the journey around #American #CivilReligion.
https://youtu.be/Qab007BtkDM?feature=shared
