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    A Primer on a Contemporary Infrasovereign Religion
    A Primer on a Contemporary Infrasovereign Religion
    A Primer on a Contemporary Infrasovereign Religion
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    A Primer on a Contemporary Infrasovereign Religion

    By Razie Mah

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    Why a series of primers?
    These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.
    Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.
    The next several primer address “the presence underlying the word ‘religion’”. This presence can be appreciated through a fully differentiated model of “humans in our current Lebenswelt”. Humans exist in society. Humans organize. Human live as individuals in community. Each of these modes of existence relate to one another as a nested form:
    Society( Organization( potential of Individual in Community))
    Primer 3 diagrams the individual in community. Primers 4 and 5 present the organization tier. Primer 6 introduces the institution level of the society tier, starting with an example, the family. Primer 7 reviews How Institutions Think (1986) by British anthropologist Mary Douglas. Primer 8 presents the idea of an infrasovereign religion, using a contemporary political movement as an example.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateJun 6, 2015
    ISBN9781942824114
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      A Primer on a Contemporary Infrasovereign Religion - Razie Mah

      A Primer on an Infrasovereign Religion

      Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords

      7815 U0’

      2015 AD

      Notes on Text

      The eighth in the primer series concerns the institution and the sovereign levels of the society tier.

      This primer considers an politically and emotionally charged example of an infrasovereign religion: America’s homosexual activism as a branch of big government (il)liberalism.

      Note: Single quotes and italics are used to group words together for easier reading.

      In order to calculate year in AD (Anno Domini), subtract 5800 from U0' (Ubaid Zero Prime).

      Table of Contents

      A Situation

      A Perspective

      The Sovereign As Nested Form

      A Historical Interlude

      The Institution in Action

      The Question

      Fetishes and Accusations

      America’s Unique Historic Fusion of Slavery and Race

      Back to the Question

      The Strengths and Weaknesses of Slogans

      What Is Natural?

      A Short Wrap Up

      Where Do We Go From Here?

      A Situation

      0001 The year is 7815 U0’. Corporate media reports from the state of Oregon. Activist homosexual couples troll Christian services (bakeries, florists, and others) in order to out the homophobes. When a business refuses to serve a homosexual wedding, the owner is sued, as if the owner refuses service on the basis of race.

      The Christian owner faces a stark choice between involuntary participation in an idolatrous religious service or bankruptcy. Judges award large payments to redress the pain and suffering of the homosexual couple. Christian owners face loss of property and business.

      0002 The legal bait-and-switch goes like this: The modern homosexual should be afforded the same civil rights as an American of African descent. Sexual orientation fits into the same legal basket as race, in a nation where race once demarked the condition of being a slave.

      Christians are at a loss because the vocabulary of civil rights has been usurped and applied to entirely different conditions. Attempts by state legislatures to prevent this legal predation flounder. According to Big Government (il)Liberalism, the so-called human rights of the homosexual outweigh a business owner’s right to practice his religion. Here, the term, religion, is defined as a Christian faction.

      A Perspective

      0003 Two worldviews face one another. One belongs to America’s (il)liberal big government legal system, the aggressive homosexual couple, and fellow travelers. The second belongs to Christian citizens, along with their state representatives. To me, this particular confrontation serves as a point of departure for contemplating one of the two types of religion. What follows is an exploration of the type of religion that pursues sovereign power.

      0004 Both perspectives are postreligionist in this manner: The first is postreligionist according to the French tradition, where not religious means not belonging to any Christian faction. The second is postreligionist in the American tradition, where the federal (union) government is limited in scope. One of the limitations is that the federal government shall not establish a religion.

      So, how do we define the word, religion?

      For both postreligionist movements, the term, religion, points to Christian factions, since there are no other religious factions at the time of the French and American revolutions.

      In the French

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