John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readSep 29, 2024

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The problem with the tribal aspect is getting beyond it, to the larger networking among tribes. The cooperation as well as the competition.

If every Bronze Age tribe had a messianic core, there never would have been Anglo-Saxons, only just Angles and Saxons fighting it out.

The Zionists are trying to re-litigate the problem the Maccabees had with the Romans, subsuming their tribal deity to the larger network.

The fallacy of monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The spectrum of ideals interacting. Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as he brought the sides of the Empire together. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules.

Making the Catholic Church the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics. Creating this situation where morality is divorced from the powers of the state.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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