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	Political religion (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		:''Statist religion, as that term is used here, is not at all the same thing as state religion.
		A statist religion is a formally structured, state-sponsored mentality and set of beliefs that are meant to be upheld unquestioningly by those subject to them.
		A common tactic of Statist religions is to pin blame for the nation's problems on a particular entity or group.
	political-religion.peernet.sk.cob-web.org:8888 (832 words)

	Transhumanism: A Futurist Philosophy
		In contrast to religion, eupraxophies are opposed to faith, dogmatism, ideological authoritarianism, and stagnation.
		I suggest that there are four basic causes: Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.
		Religion says we need not and should seek physical immortality through life extension, biostasis and so on, since we are already guaranteed these in the afterlife.
	www.maxmore.com /transhum.htm (4429 words)

	The Myth of Private Religion
		In addressing the subject of "public religion," it is well to recall that the notion of private religion is a relatively modern concept and one primarily identified intellectually with the rise of modernity and historically with the American tradition of church and state.
		Religion and culture were inextricably intertwined and, as religion developed from a tribal to a national stage, religious history was inseparable from what today would be called social and political history.
		Religion was so thoroughly integrated into the nation-state as to constitute a religio-political system by which society was stabilized and governed.
	members.aol.com /EndTheWall/private.htm (2528 words)

	Sociology of religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sociology of religion is – among other elements – the study of the practices, social structures, historical backgrounds, development, universal themes, and roles of religion in society.
		Thus, “Religion was conceived to be a powerful conservative force that served to perpetuate the domination of one social class at the expense of others.” (Ibid 127).
		According to the Normal Revelations model, religions are founded when the founder interprets ordinary natural phenomena as supernatural; for instance, ascribing his or her own creativity in inventing the religion to that of the deity.
	sociology-of-religion.iqnaut.net (2181 words)

	LP: WHAT IS A STATIST?
		Statists enact laws that forbid you from taking certain actions altogether or only if you have their permission—and the idea is: if you may only act by permission, you do not have a right to your life.
		Statists, through their regulations, determine how much of your money you will be allowed to keep—and the idea is: if you do not have the right to decide how your money is spent, your money is not yours.
		Statists issue decrees restricting how you may use your property—and the idea is: if you do not have the right to control the use and disposal of your property, your property is not yours.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=105725 (3026 words)

	Religioscope: The Gülen Movement: a modern expression of Turkish Islam - Interview with Hakan Yavuz
		Thirdly, he stressed the idea that religion and science are not in tension: they are not mutually exclusive, but can work together.
		This approach means that there is no room at all for religion in the public sphere, resulting in the cleansing of religion from the public domain.
		Religion is seen as a source of morality and ethics.
	religion.info /english/interviews/article_74.shtml (3405 words)

	ADAM2.ORG - Rousseau's Civil Religion: the Idolatry of Tolerance
		That is, since civil government without religion is an impossibility, but also since Christianity is counterproductive to or subversive of civil government, the state must impose its own self-serving religion, which occupies a merely utilitarian function.
		Although all states are inescapably religious, at least the religion of the state depicted in Orwell's 1984 is obvious; by contrast, under the guise of civil religion, states can with impunity systematically subvert Christianity and rob true freedom from their citizens.
		A prime stated goal of civil religion, according to Rousseau, is to defang the exclusivity of robust faiths that may compete with and supersede the statist faith.
	adam2.org /articles/civil_religion.html (1531 words)

	Religion and Capitalism Are Antithetical: The Defenders of Capitalism Should Invoke Secularism and Reason, Not Religion ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Religion and Capitalism Are Antithetical: The Defenders of Capitalism Should Invoke Secularism and Reason, Not Religion and Faith, as Their Justification
		Religion cannot be the basis of freedom and capitalism because of its inherently authoritarian nature.
		They established simultaneously the freedom to practice one's religion privately and the freedom to be politically free from religious authority.
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=3290 (903 words)

	Civil religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Greek and Roman religion were essentially local in character; the Roman Empire attempted to unite its disparate territories by inculcating an ideal of Roman piety, and by a syncretistic identifying the gods of conquered territories with the Greek and Roman pantheon.
		Rousseau defined "civil religion" as a group of religious beliefs he believed to be universal, and which he believed governments had a right to uphold and maintain: belief in a deity, belief in an afterlife in which virtue is rewarded and vice punished; and belief in religious tolerance.
		This assertive Civil religion of the United States of America is an occasional cause of political friction between the United States and its allies in Europe, where (the literally religious form of) Civil religion is often relatively muted.
	civil-religion.iqnaut.net (1305 words)

	Max Weber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Weber argued that religion was one of the primary reasons for the different ways the cultures of the Occident and the Orient have developed.
		In the end, the study of the sociology of religion, according to Weber, merely explored one phase of the emancipation from magic, that "disenchantment of the world" that he regarded as an important distinguishing aspect of Western culture.
		The emperor was the high priest of the state religion and the supreme ruler, but popular cults were also tolerated (however the political ambitions of their priests were curtailed).
	max-weber.iqnaut.net (5257 words)

	State religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A state religion (also called an established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state.
		Increasingly, sociologists of religion are using the concept of monopolies in economics as an analogy for State churches.
		State religions tend to enjoy the allegiance of the majority of their country; however much of this support is little more than nominal, with many members of the church rarely attending it.
	state-religion.iqnaut.net (1031 words)

	Church & State
		The major barrier for anyone wanting to lay claim to a national religion for America is how to address the founders' desire for no religious tests, no established national religion, and total freedom of the individual to worship or not according to his or her conscience.
		America was founded in part to be a religious sanctuary, where dissenters could worship in peace alongside the practitioners of major religions, and a place where the individual could choose to believe in any faith or no faith at all.
		It is not "freedom from religion" that most of us seek--it is freedom from other people's ideas of religion, or the right to worship as we please.
	batr.org /twins/id34.html (2371 words)

	The Class Struggle in American Religion
		Politically, what is most troubling is the effortless linkage between reactionary religion and reactionary politics, especially in terms of an aggressive and at least potentially bellicose nationalism.
		Let it be assumed, though, that Christians can aspire to some freedom from these ideological and geographical determinations (if they cannot, there must be something wrong with their understanding of the gospel that sets us free).
		Religion, for reasons that cannot be developed here, always gets into the business of legitimation in human society and history -- that is part of its nature -- and the Christian religion is no exception.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1694 (3936 words)

	Statism, Not Separationism, Is the Problem
		Separation between church and state is a phrase often used to summarize, perhaps to sloganize, the relationship between religion and government envisioned by the founders and decreed by them in the religion clause of the First Amendment.
		That view, of course, would put the courts on the side of the strong against the weak and nullify the whole purpose of the Bill of Rights, which is to protect individual rights against government powers.
		Neither religion clause should be subordinated to the other; each protects an important aspect of religious liberty.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=830 (2411 words)

	Environmentalism: A Modern Idolatry
		To view modern culture, politics and religion, one would quickly get a sense that "the environment" is the latest object of worship by many in the Western World.
		Although, most committed environmentalists would claim to be much too sophisticated to be following in the footsteps of some ancient pagan or animistic religion, their new "progressive environmentalism," in reality, is simply a re-packaging of old pantheistic errors combined with a much more dangerous set of public policy proposals than previous versions of environmentalism.
		What we see from all of this is that environmentalists, driven by their Statist-oriented religion (the neo-Marxian component and utopian components coming through), are pressuring the central government, already exceeding its Biblically-mandated functions by its pervasive laws and regulations, to expand its powers even more drastically.
	www.reformed.org /webfiles/antithesis/v1n2/ant_v1n2_environ.html (5400 words)

	The First Christian Fellowship of Eternal Sovereignty
		Today we often hear about how religion must stay out of government and that the separation of church and state must be absolute and that Christianity has no place in American Government.
		In fact, the federal government has spawned its own secular humanist religion by substituting the theory of evolution; and using taxed financed government school buildings as churches; and paying its clergy, the government school teachers, to preach this dogma: The federal government has clearly violated the separation of church and state.
		Yet this religion has been perverted, and in many countries, made the basis of a system of ecclesiastical domination, which has enslaved the minds of men, as political power had before enslaved their bodies.
	www.sovereignfellowship.com /tos.php?sec=41 (2882 words)

	N-AUG98
		It is to the economic and political discredit of Canada that provinces like Newfoundland, with tremendous resource bases, have been reduced to statist economic backwaters by the unwillingness of a central government to release political and economic control of any meaningful sort to provincial governments.
		Maybe the models for the career of Premier Brian Tobin are found not in the American mythology of presidential politics but rather in the more drab and pitiful models of the prime time of Soviet Russia.
		The statist religion of Canada politics is one for which Pierre Trudeau and his disciples wrote the sacred texts in the profligate 1960's.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/bstagg/n-aug98.htm (688 words)

	Journal of Religion and Society
		In the course of doing so, they celebrate such things as the modern differentiation of life into autonomous spheres like "religion" and "the political," the advance of secularization, and the withdrawal of the church from politics.
		<5> It appears that some of the base communities are, in the words of Leonardo Boff, "reinventing the church," generating a new practice of faith that neither heeds the modern boundaries between religion and politics nor succumbs to the allure of the state (1986; cf.
		As poor Christians come together in nonhierarchical, participatory gatherings to celebrate informal liturgies, as they reflect on Scripture, as they share food, visit the sick, establish a cooperative or undertake a joint work project, and occasionally engage in some form of protest or petition the ruling powers, they are clearly about politics.
	moses.creighton.edu /jrs/2000/2000-7.html (3286 words)

	Samizdata quote of the day \| Samizdata.net
		Religions give comfort and succour to humans (that means both sexes) and try to divine the workings of the universe.
		Religion operates fundamentally on the basis of the mere authority of what someone says or what is written in some book.
		Religion may "provide comfort" to people, or whatever, but it is a false comfort if what they believe isn't true.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/008344.html (6055 words)

	THE AGES OF GAlA Exposed
		New Age religion is not a religion as we define one with a creed or ceremony.
		New Age religion doesn't provide the structure of a church and is more limited to individuals or very small groups.
		In the political area, this merging of environmental religion into national politics is a violation of separation of church and state and should be treated as such.
	www.sullivan-county.com /immigration/e0.html (8386 words)

	Environmentalism: The New National Religion
		Robert A. Sirico, president of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, accurately observes that—despite such disclaimers—the NRPE and Fenton Communications are in fact pursuing an overt political agenda signaling the emergence of a modern political theology which is attempting to link religion, statist politics, and environmental extremism.
		The extent to which Environmentalism has become a New National Religion unto itself may appear to be a harmless exercise of religious freedom.This is far from the case.
		Official adoption of "environmental education" amounts to biased advocacy and establishment within public school systems of the new Green Religion— teaching the fundamental premise that all human ecological "footprints" are negative in their intention and effects.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/maxey1.html (842 words)

	The Binary Circumstance » 2005 » January » 15
		The fact that they have not included any individual writers who will discuss the inherent irrationality of religion and its ongoing assault on evidence and rational thought is a clear indication that the "values" and faiths promoted by these religious writers will be presented without question.
		There are those of us who believe that religion is a symptom of an epidemic of mental illness.
		There is not only ample evidence that religions do not require any evidence for their belief systems, they loudly proclaim that it is the lack of evidence that makes adherence to their faith so important to "spiritual" growth.
	www.thebinarycircumstance.com /2005/01/15 (1760 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . INTERVIEW . John Milbank . February 21, 2003 \| PBS
		He belongs to a tradition that sees the church itself as the anticipation of the heavenly kingdom, that sees the church itself as a social project, as the place where true human flourishing could come into being.
		The whole area of the arts and the question of liturgy and the question of resacrilizing time and space are going to be important for RowanÉThere's a sort of uniformity to liturgical practice now; the same thing happens all the time.
		For many people in Britain today, all religion is seen as just ridiculous, particularly amongst the chattering classes, and it's assumed that Christianity has very weak intellectual credentials.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week625/milbank.html (1562 words)

	Jewish Folklore in Israel-Jerusalem Studies Vol XIX-XX
		The symbolic constitution of Israel's sacred geography is informed by Judaism's folk and traditional religion on the one hand and by Israeli civil religion on the other hand.
		The major patterns of Israel's national cults are discussed in relation to the patriotic glorification of independence and to the commemoration of fallen soldiers - Mount Herzl as a national shrine, military cemeteries and monuments, and the patriotic ritual calendar.
		The first part of the present article is a description of Austin's theory, especially of the different types of acts done while uttering a performative speech-act (the locutionary, the illocutionary, and the perlocutionary acts), and the conditions necessary for making it a "successful" one.
	www.folklore.org.il /JSIJF/jsijf19-20.html (3916 words)

	Desperation of Church and State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Minorities such as American Indians (many of whom practice non-Biblical religions), certain protestant sects such as Seventh-day Adventists, and certainly Jewish people, and now Muslims and Hindus, and PC “non-theists” all feel that without the functioning concept of separation of church and state in America, their religions would be curtailed, repressed, and finally disallowed.
		There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.
		In the United States, religion is therefore mingled with all the habits of the nation and all the feelings of patriotism, whence it derives a peculiar force.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/952790/posts (6658 words)

	The False Gods of Earth Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is a sign of a growing strain of modern political theology that attempts to link religion, statist politics and extreme environmentalism.
		The National Religious Partnership for the Environment, for example, is spending $4.5 million to distribute tens of thousands of "Environmental Awareness Kits" with an overtly political agenda to the nation's religious congregations for use this weekend.
		Father Sirico is a president of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Mich.
	www.acton.org /ppolicy/editorials/sirico/earth_day.html (855 words)

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