Peoples in the past created communities inspired by their sense of the divine. Ancient Egypt was a divine empire. Ancient philosophers believed the business of governing was a divine vocation. Moses's laws tried to make moral goodness the basis of his community. Saint Augustine in his great book, The City Of God, the Civitas Dei, claims that in world history two states exist side by side, the civitas dei and the civitas terrena, the heavenly city of God composed of the good and the earthly city composed of the unredeemed. Nation-states in our time do have nasty, difficult, practical problems to deal with but that should never be an excuse for leaders acting corruptly and immorally. A government like our government in Washington with its trillions of dollars in revenue and its freedom as a central government from the day-to-day tasks of state governments should never act selfishly and immorally. Washington should become in our 21st century a central world international government of a worldwide union of states with saintly leaders gathered from all over our globe promoting with their great power Saint Augustine’s civitas dei.
Daniel McNeill
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