Worship your rulers
“Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Christendom in Dublin, 1933
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July 26th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I think Chesterton missed the direction of the future. Why would any of us follow a government when we can follow Coca-Cola, Frito-Lays and Nike? Wal-mart is worth more than some nations (and contains more plasma TV screens to boot).