Every ruler must collect his own seashells, to add as Caligulan motif.
As Xenophon says, –don't think loyalty grows like grass on the field.
That is what Christian integralists do.
While Numa's practice carries and helps the state overall, nonetheless it is fatal to utterly neglect the practice of Romulus, to neglect the fear of a prince, to neglect a cult of personality, to neglect that kind of prowess and the sword – as Machiavelli says, armed prophets succeed.
The problem with Christian integralists in my eyes is very simple – they end up being only monarchists for JC (Jesus) and utterly neglect this.
Yet it is altogether important for a ruler to establish his own legacy and his own cult of personality–rather than piggyback off another or give all the seashells to JC–this will only give you a populace who knows only Jesus and not King King. Their "trickle down" method does not work in this case IMHO.
–Which is not to say there is no use for religion or ideology, but religion in this case as Hobbes laments becomes a 2nd society and 5th column and detracts from–rather than builds up–the former society as Nietzsche would even lament "de-naturalizes" and siphons off from.
So it is direly important that rulers do as Hobbes says and instill that cult of personality on the public and use pastoral authority (that is, educate them) and give due reverence and honors therein (rather than abstract and divide it all away to another king, JC).
& Christian integralists will resist this with all their fervor, but the problem there lies with Christianity from the beginning–I could bring up a few verses, but simply said there's Abraham and Pharaoh–and the relationship with Sarah–and the plight I have here is summed up in that situation, where Sarah is given to Pharaoh to "feign" a kind of loyalty, and that is what you have with the Christian integralists, the foundation of this loyalty is not real, and it is not pertinent, it goes to Jesus and only builds off association, which can never truly be a fruition within Christianity. & on top of that, to add salt to the wound, the verses in Isaiah with all the kings licking the dust off feet and going in procession – that was always a problem to begin with, and that is why I say Christian integralists are wrong and it is fundamentally out of harmony and out of sync.
So every ruler needs to build
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