When Your Church IS the State
The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult to access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.”
-Albert J. Nock
But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.
False is everything in it; with stolen teeth it biteth, the biting one. False are even its bowels.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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And on to a local instance, wherein a priest bullies parents with exegesis that would embarrass a 4th grader in CCD, and a principal and school board do their best to make a formerly Catholic school anti-Catholic… It’s all the rage after all…
A school prayer follows.
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A Prayer to the State (From the Desks of F-wick President and F-wick Principal)
Good and Gracious Government,
From you we gain our strength and funding,
To you, we pay homage.
You who create such widespread, blind allegiance;
You who crush individuality in your places of worship.
The voting booth, that tabernacle,
The government school, that righteous prison,
Taxation, the first collection,
Inflation the second.
Help us divide our student-captives by race, by gender.
Banish from us the desire to praise clear achievement.
The better students are privileged with industry and intelligence after all,
Unfair, so says St. John Rawls…
We open our gates to you and your emissaries:
The CIA spook–that children might imitate him.
The Governor of Our State–he’s been ordained to rule over us.
And President Biden, that luminary, who legally ousted that anti-pope president.
May no one sense our real mission;
“March F-wick, march incels and woke third wave feminists of sustainable bio-mass.”
We are an island of mediocrity and convention; egalitarianism and blandness.
Let us continue to make drone, Oak Park-conforming, activists!
Nothing is beyond your scope; nothing outside of your power.
May we dutifully fulfill what St. Woodrow Wilson loved to say:
“The purpose of [schooling] should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible.”
(Please excuse his misogyny, Lord of Coercion.)
A-(Wo)Men.
