Examples of kings being deified are too numerous to cover here (think Egypt, Rome, China, Japan); examples of priestly rule = India etc
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A government can, of course, ban certain religions from having a role in the government, but this is because they are by their nature...
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...*COUNTER-GOVERNMENTS* at odds with the (undeclared) de facto religion of the state.
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It's fun to notice religious trappings around the American government--veneration of the constitution and the "original intent," etc
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National mythology, statues to American gods like Washington or Liberty, you get the idea
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Separation of STATE AND MARKET is what's crucial; Jacobs goes into detail about this in Systems of Survival
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you're kinda missing my point here
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no you're still not getting this dude, you need to think of "religion" a bit differently
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