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#385 You’re Doing Catholic Politics Wrong - Andrew Willard Jones

Catholic Answers Focus

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The Idols Are Always Fake, Right?

The tragedy of paganism is that men trying to make themselves gods end up being the slaves of their own power. This is a mission that is always self-destructive and ends in slavery, right, slavery for everyone. So when we're moving into a neo-pigantism, it doesn't mean that we can expect to start worshipping Jupiter again. The point is that we build structures of power that we end up worshiping because we fear the punishments and desire the rewards that those structures provide us. They become gods.

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