Opus Dei’s story is less about religion than about the weaponization of belief
— the transformation of faith into infrastructure.
When devotion becomes a strategy for power, and purity a currency for control,
democracy itself becomes collateral damage.
The deeper question is no longer whether a group like Opus Dei is religious or political
— it’s how long societies can endure when the two become indistinguishable.
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I know the American People are much attached to their Government; — I know they would suffer much for its sake; — I know they would endure evils long and patiently, before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come.
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I know the American People are much attached to their Government; -- I know they would suffer much for its sake; -- I know they would endure evils long and patiently, before they would ever think of exchanging it for another.WIST Quotations
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in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Have religion and politics ever, in the last 5000 years, ever been separate? Historically, religion is always the glue that hold groups bound to their self-appointed leaders, to die on his behalf.
We spent centuries deriving the Talmud from the Torah, but look at the State of Israel today. *Occasionally* religion rises above, and can become a beautiful thing that improves the lot of humanity, but it never lasts.