There’s a reason why Christianity was so popular with monarchs in the middle ages, and it’s because Christian cosmology is arranged just like a monarchy.
The reformation tried to carve chunks of that monarchism out of the liturgy, but the whole “Jesus, king of kings” thing stuck around, and had been moved more and more towards the forefront again with the evangelical movement — which is undoubtedly why the new American fascism has come cloaked in all the trappings of evangelical Christianity.
Really, this has been a thing for centuries.
There’s a reason why Christianity was so popular with monarchs in the middle ages, and it’s because Christian cosmology is arranged just like a monarchy.
The reformation tried to carve chunks of that monarchism out of the liturgy, but the whole “Jesus, king of kings” thing stuck around, and had been moved more and more towards the forefront again with the evangelical movement — which is undoubtedly why the new American fascism has come cloaked in all the trappings of evangelical Christianity.