{"id":5086,"date":"2010-11-16T23:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2010-11-16T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:08:06","slug":"the-case-for-an-established-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-case-for-an-established-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The case for an established church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Yglesias makes it implicitly, <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/11\/royal-wedding-and-the-case-for-monarchy\/\">Royal Wedding and the Case for Monarchy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The point here is that it seems inevitable in any country for some individual to end up serving the functional role of the king.<strong> Humans are hierarchical primates by nature and have a kind of fascination with power and dignity<\/strong>. This is somewhat inevitable, but it also cuts against the grain of a democracy. And under constitutional monarchy, you can mitigate the harm posed by displacing the mystique of power onto the powerless monarch&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If humans are superstitious and collectivist by nature (which I grant some would dispute) then the same logic would apply to an established religious order. Something innocuous such as&#8230;the Anglican Church?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Yglesias makes it implicitly, Royal Wedding and the Case for Monarchy: The point here is that it seems inevitable in any country for some individual to end up serving the functional role of the king. Humans are hierarchical primates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-case-for-an-established-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}