[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
But if you believe in the supreme value of the state, you can't 
believe in the supreme value of God. If you believe in state 
supremacy you are likely to also be an atheist.

[Arlo]
Not according to the Monarchs and Theocrats who viewed, historically, 
the Supreme Value of the State to be the manifest reality of God's 
Will. I seem to recall the "Holy Roman Empire" being quite a profound 
example of believing combining God and state. I also seem to recall 
Europe's monarchs for the better part of Western History to have no 
problem conflating the Supremacy of God with the Supremacy of The 
State, sacrificing and executing dissidents towards the state in the 
name of God.

As I said, this attempt by "religion" to latch onto secular 
enlightenment's ideas of "freedom" is naught but a pathetic attempt 
by a castrated dogma to align itself with the philosophy that caused 
its demise.