I do think that the Founders didn't go far enough to be concerned about the use of the government in regulating society in accordance with one religious faction or another.
The problem is that by harping to an extreme degree against religious indoctrination, we have ended up in a situation where the government is regulating society in accordance with one religious faction that pretends it's not one.
we have ended up in a situation where the government is regulating society in accordance with one religious faction that pretends it's not one.
Absolutely agree. The whole purpose of the cathedral is to function as a secular religion, thus flaunting the separation of church and state, molding public opinion and morality. The consent it manufactures by doing this can then be used as political power, since the republic can be levered by public opinion. Add to that the long march the socialists have been making through the institutions, and you reach the present day.
Perhaps they should have imposed a secular religion from the outset, enshrining the values of the day that would bind the union. (entirely compatible and non-interfering with "real" religions which varied from state to state) It's canon would be the Constitution and letters or important writings from the above figures. It's deities would be the Creator, the founders, and figures later canonized. I haven't figured out who the priest class is yet.
I do think that the Founders didn't go far enough to be concerned about the use of the government in regulating society in accordance with one religious faction or another.
The problem is that by harping to an extreme degree against religious indoctrination, we have ended up in a situation where the government is regulating society in accordance with one religious faction that pretends it's not one.
Absolutely agree. The whole purpose of the cathedral is to function as a secular religion, thus flaunting the separation of church and state, molding public opinion and morality. The consent it manufactures by doing this can then be used as political power, since the republic can be levered by public opinion. Add to that the long march the socialists have been making through the institutions, and you reach the present day.
Perhaps they should have imposed a secular religion from the outset, enshrining the values of the day that would bind the union. (entirely compatible and non-interfering with "real" religions which varied from state to state) It's canon would be the Constitution and letters or important writings from the above figures. It's deities would be the Creator, the founders, and figures later canonized. I haven't figured out who the priest class is yet.
This kind of reminds me of the mythologizing of America's founding that was kind of poked fun at in Bioshock Infinite:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bioshock/images/9/9a/Foundingfatherstrio.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140222022625
Perhaps such a deifying of the founding fathers could have better protected America's ideals in the long run.
So something entirely incompatible with Christianity