@Zardoz @prisondoc @freepatriot CHURN is a good word for it. You’re spot-on the entire scope-and-span of human history is perfectly coherent with the notion of an Almighty God creating ideal conditions for billions of free-willed agents to make up their own minds whether to love the Creature or the Creator 🙏🏻
@Zardoz @prisondoc @freepatriot They did; as did most of Europe’s monarchs. It is very much cyclical.
But the American Republic didn’t fare much better - and itself fell to the “80 Year Curse” by the time of the American Civil War.
Republics are a lamentable compromise, which start out pretty good - but end up selling out the great-grandkids. Hard Localism would undoubtedly be better 😄
@Zardoz @prisondoc @freepatriot The Parasite knew quite well they wouldn’t get too far in the American milieu while anchored to Traditional Monarchy; Thomas Jefferson and his “Life and Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth” is emblematic of precisely the sort of project they were going for — cut out anything/everything suggestive of Divine/Supernatural provenance in the Gospel narrative - turning the Son of God into a good-natured-yet-rebellious carpenter with a philosophical bent.