Philosophy with Indy and Taco Bell - The Monday Morning Memo

“TOM GRIMES: Politics + Religion is a formula for Might makes Right.

Politics without Religion … becomes its own Religion.

Religion & Politics are better when Church and State are separate.

JEFF SEXTON: One cannot rule coherently and justly without relation to metaphysics. So in that sense, there can be no politics fully separated from religion. It is only a question of whose religion is dominant.

In that sense, every government is a theocracy whether it goes by that label or not.

For either a government acknowledges a god — i.e., a spiritual and vertical authority higher than itself, and to which it must remain aligned — or it sees itself as God, the highest possible authority.

History shows that the latter is orders of magnitude more murderous and tyrannical than the former.

TOM GRIMES: Sometimes it’s just about filling in potholes and keeping trains running on time.”

- a text thread on June 9, 2024, at 9:08AM. Jeffrey Eisenberg and I were witnesses. – RHW

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