Talk about confabulation!! I assure you, fearing the Lord (this is not Zarathustra, right? Buddha? any of the several thousand?) and calling upon his name has nothing to do with the greatness of the Great Experiment. As you yourself began to say so eloquently, it is an experiment in individuals co-existing in mutual freedom under the law. That is a VERY thornyporposition to float when you look at the precedents in favor of dictatorships and priesthoods and oligarchies and theocracies and troikas and fascisms and so on.

Keeping the Lord's name OUT of it was one of the reasons it succeeded, because it defused one of the historic bases of social failure, namely, trying to make religious issues part of the commons where they cannot exist.


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