The Church of State: Worshipping the Golden Calf of Control

Author: Ethan Lucas

07/25/2025 @ 9:19pm ET

In modern society, the word government is spoken with reverence, fear, and obedience—rarely with the suspicion or contempt it deserves. Strip away the patriotic slogans, the ceremonial rituals, the marble temples (buildings), and the myth of “consent,” and what remains is this: government is nothing more than an armed and violent secular religion, run by an elitist priesthood class. And we need to stop pretending that it’s not.

People mock ancient religions for sacrificing to idols or worshipping golden calves. And yet today, they sacrifice their liberty, their income, and their children’s futures to the State. They sing its hymns in public schools. They worship its symbols. They elect false messiahs every four years. And they dare not question its authority—because questioning it, truly questioning it, is seen as blasphemy.

But this church is not sacred. It is a lie propped up by force. Its gods are corrupt, its priests are fraudulent, and its rituals are designed to extract obedience, time, money, and energy from its host: The People.

⸻

The Myth of Legitimacy: Faith in the State

Every religion operates on the premise of belief—belief in a higher authority, belief in sacred texts, and belief in rituals that offer protection or meaning. Government is no different. People believe in the legal documents of their nation like Muslims believe in the Quran, or Christians believe in the Bible. They revere flags like sacred idols and icons, they chant pledges like prayers and mantras, and they celebrate national holidays, just like holy days (which is precisely where the word comes from). But unlike voluntary religion, this one has guns and prisons behind its commandments, and the threat of violence if you don't submit.

The idea that the government is legitimate because people “vote” or are “represented” is a vile and childish myth—an article of blind faith. Most people don’t read the legislation (nor do they have time), they don’t understand the policy (even if they had time to read it), and certainly they don’t get to say no to these policies that are voted on by people they can't control and have no access to, and when the taxman shows up...well, you know what happens then. Consent, in this context, is nothing more than a theological abstraction, and flawed and evil men and women are the gods behind it all. The reality is closer to: obey or be shamed and punished.

⸻

The Priesthood Class: Politicians, Judges, Bureaucrats

Every religion has a priesthood—a class of intermediaries who interpret the holy texts and issue decrees in the name of the divine. In this secular religion, the priests wear suits, ties, and black robes, instead of the usual white fancy robes of the mainstream Abrahamic faiths. They hold gavels instead of scepters. They perform ritual theater in courtrooms and capitol buildings. These are your senators, your judges, your “experts,” (Scribes and Pharisees) and your unelected agency heads who issue thousands of edicts (called “regulations”) that somehow carry the force of law—without a single vote from the people...which is COMPLETELY unconstitutional, by the way.

These are not stewards or public servants of the people (as they ought to be...and any idea that they can be and remain just that, is little more than virtue signaling at its finest). They are the new High Priests. Elitist, unelected, and unaccountable. They speak a language most don’t understand—legalese and policy-speak (which is little more than spell casting in an organized, white collar witchcraft system of mind control)—while laundering tyranny through bureaucracy. The average citizen is not represented by these people; they are ruled by them.

⸻

Rituals of Obedience: Taxes, Licenses, Permits

Religions often require tithes, confessions, and acts of obedience. So does government. You’re expected to tithe (via taxes), get blessings (permits) for your every move, and confess your finances (filing returns) yearly to the IRS inquisitors. Fail to do so, and your punishment is not spiritual—it’s financial ruin, imprisonment, or state violence.

You need permission to build on your own land, to travel freely, to marry, to start a business. And yet they call this freedom. It’s freedom in name only—freedom as defined by your captors. You may live as you wish, so long as you first genuflect before the state and pay its tolls...tolls that you did not ask for, nor did you consent to, which makes it theft.

⸻

Violent Enforcement: The Inquisition in Kevlar

Unlike voluntary religions, the government’s authority is backed by the barrel of a gun and violent, warring thugs with a chip on their shoulder, and an ingrained mental illness that makes them believe that they're actually doing virtuous work! There is no room for heresy. Disagree too loudly, refuse too boldly, and they will send their modern-day inquisitors—armed men in uniforms—to ensure compliance. Whether it’s a SWAT raid over raw milk (which they have no business or constitutional authority over), arresting a hairdresser for operating without a license (which, again, they have no business or constitutional authority over), or jailing someone for refusing to pay the state its cut, the principle is the same: coercion through force. And it only continues because it's allowed and thought of as normal by the majority of people. Make no mistake...it is actually the fault of everyone around you for allowing it to continue. Evil prevails when good men and women do nothing.

And let’s be clear—these armed agents are the standing army our Founders not only warned us about, but fought and died to get rid of! The very concept of a militarized domestic police force would have been abhorrent to those who bled and died in the War for Independence. Our Founders fought to break free from redcoats patrolling the streets, stalking the people, and kicking down doors and enforcing the Crown’s decrees. Today, we have the SAME. EXACT. THING. Only now they wear blue or black, they carry military-grade equipment, and enforce "laws" even more arbitrary than those of King George...most of which are actually unconstitutional to begin with! But because everyone goes along with it and no one questions it or demands that it end, it continues. What you allow will continue. Always.

We now live in a country where armored vehicles roll through small towns, surveillance-state tactics are deployed against peaceful citizens, and police unions protect state agents no matter how egregious their abuses. These police are not peace officers—they are road pirates. Marauding, stalking, harassing, and violating the People’s God-given, natural, unalienable rights.

And one of those sacred rights is the sacred right to be left the fuck alone! But instead of honoring that, they run a mafia-style racketeering operation—extorting money and slave-like submission, under threat of arrest, injury, or death, while armed to the teeth, and highly coordinated in massive numbers across the nation...again, they are LITERALLY the standing army that sparked 1776. They pull you over for arbitrary, nonviolent “offenses,” with no victim (you're the only victim actually), which you never consented to be governed by. In doing so, they violate, not only your sacred right to be left alone, but your 4th Amendment right to be secure in your person, papers, and effects. The mere act of stopping you without cause is a constitutional, ethical, and spiritual trespass.

And no, the fact that a bunch of men and women in fancy suits and ties got together in a fancy building and wrote shit down on a piece of paper, which says that you can't drive 38mph instead of 35mph, or that you don't have your headlights on when it's overcast, or whatever...which you did not consent to...does not give them probable cause. It gives them a bullshit reason, that YOU HAD NO SAY SO IN (which makes it a form of involuntary servitude, which is unconstitutional and unethical), to violate your rights, waste your time, extort money from you, and treat you like a slave...and that bullshit reason is not valid. Just because the majority of people pretend like it is valid, doesn't make it so. Remember, it wasn't all that long ago that the majority of people also pretended like owning another human being like property was valid. NEWS FLASH: anything that is not voluntary is not a valid, ethical, or lawful action or transaction. And again, just because society has allowed that to become the norm, does not make it right!

So when they fine you, arrest you, or seize your property in this manner, they are not enforcing law—they are making you a slave. A slave to their system. A slave to their violence. A slave to their religion. And in doing so, they trample the most sacred right of all: the right to your own body, your own time, and your own freedom.

Every so-called law they enforce is backed by the threat of violence. If you resist, force will follow. That is not justice. That is not order. That is ritualized coercion in ceremonial disguise, created and run by a sado-masochist secular cult.

⸻

Conclusion: Withdraw Your Consent (1776, 2.0)

The solution is not to reform this psychotic violent religion—it is to abandon it. To reject its false moral authority. To stop kneeling. Stop pledging. Stop obeying unjust laws simply because a man in a robe or a badge said so. Simply because people that you may or may not have voted for, got together and wrote shit down on a piece of paper and said that it must be applied to you...and with violence if you do not submit! This is pure evil and insanity to the highest degree!

True freedom begins when you realize that government is not your god and it has no ethical or lawful authority over you! It is a nebulous, violent parasite (a vampire) with a pulpit, a gun, invisible & arbitrary borders, and a flag. It survives only because you believe it must. It's quite literally a collective dream...a nightmare to be exact. A nightmare in a very toxic mind.

The only legitimate law is Natural Law: do no harm, and all is voluntary. And if people continue to choose to pretend like this isn't so, they are simply proving that they are willing to live in cognitive dissonance, virtue signal, pay for their own enslavement, and pay others at the polls to construct and perform perceived "legitimate" violence on others, because they themselves are too cowardly to do it themselves...and they're too cowardly to admit their own evil nature that, clearly, they seem to find impossible to transcend, and ascend to a level of true virtue, honesty, integrity, accountability, and justice. They continue to vote for these demonic gods to rule over themselves and others because they can't escape the demonic possession of the illusory fear that society would collapse without their vampiric captors. It's systemic Stockholm Syndrome. And yes, it is pure evil and there's literally no other way to put it...if we want to stop pretending and be adults. Completely honest adults.

Withdraw your consent. When you do, the evil power structure crumbles. Only then will you be free. Take the red pill like our Founders and force the politicians, judges, police, et al, to get a real job or start a real business, producing real value in society (based on completely voluntary transactions and interactions), instead of being parasitic demons who lord over others and keep everyone in bondage...all while wearing a pious mask of deception and utter bullshit.

They will continue to lie to themselves and everyone else to keep this false religion called government propped up. They will use deceptive terms like "the greater good," when there is no such thing. The only good is the individual good. And if society isn't good for every individual, then we have failed. Now, that doesn't mean that we pander to and prop up everyone who fails to be ambitious and industrious, and produce value in society, but it does require that we not allow for the formation of a monopolistic system of power that rules with the force of violence for noncompliance to the arbitrary whims of the parasites who hijack and control the system (which they always inevitably do).

The only law that should be created by man, which follows Natural Law, which is the true Supreme Law of the Land...is a law that states the following:

The formation of territorial government systems, with arbitrary, invisible boundaries, is antithetical to human decency and a free society, and therefore it is strictly prohibited. People have a right to peaceably assemble as they see fit, form relationships, bonds, and associations, and to choose the code of conduct for their own private relationships, bonds, and associations, in lawful, ethical privately held territories, as they see fit, and only as it is rooted in complete voluntarism. All else (inherently) is violence and is nothing short of toxic barbarism, force, disrespect, dishonor, and degradation. There's nothing civilized about territorial government systems, which force all individuals to comply with arbitrary ideologies, whether voted on by 51% or 99%. There is no good that can come out of them...only oppression, violence, involuntary servitude, and the slowing of progress for all of humanity. Unless there is 100% voluntary compliance to any ideology or system, that system is unlawful, destructive, barbaric, and disallowed amongst free living souls. And anyone attempting to create, uphold, and/or enforce any such system, and/or to attempt to force others to follow, obey, and/or comply with its arbitrary demands, becomes, by default, a combatant enemy of all free living souls, and therefore, by default, they automatically surrender any and all of their natural, unalienable rights, and may be dealt with, as seen fit by all free living souls, without fear of repercussion or retaliation. If any individual or group of individuals attempts to retaliate against any other individual or group of individuals for using whatever means necessary to stop the creation of territorial government systems, with arbitrary, invisible boundaries, they automatically and immediately surrender any and all of their natural, unalienable rights, and may be dealt with, in any manner necessary to stop them.

This then is the only true, honorable, and ethical law of the entire Earth for humanity: Do no harm except in righteous self-defense of life, liberty, and property. All forms of arbitrary government, without the consent of 100% of the people affected, are unlawful. The only legitimate law is Natural Law, which, like energy itself, cannot be created nor destroyed.

And no matter what it is...if it doesn't engender and foster the complete, equal, voluntaristic, and open opportunity for the honest, unincumbered pursuit of health, wealth, love, and happiness, then it is by definition, inherently evil...and not in any religious or spiritual sense. Evil is not some nebulous idea created by superstitious minds...evil is anything that violates the unalienable, natural rights of any living soul. Evil is anything done by force, except in cases of protecting the unalienable, natural rights of any living soul. And therefore, government itself is, by definition, pure evil, operating solely on the philosophy that might is right and 51% of the people can enslave the other 49% and steal from them at will.

Reject government wholesale, or sell your children and grand children down the river of excuses and bullshit, which ultimately leads to the death pool of continued slavery and oppression for everyone...not just minorities. The smallest minority isn't the 49% or anyone of a certain skin color or cultural background. The smallest minority is the individual, so no one should have a problem with any of what is being said here, because you...yes you, reading this...you are the minority being oppressed every single day, simply by the continuance of support of government, and the making of excuses for the very screwing of you and everyone else over. No more bullshit about, "as long as my party is in control, it's fine." You're part of the problem...the WORST part.

It's time to grow up and be an adult. It's time to be honest. Humanity has suffered under this spell and the oppression of arbitrary control systems for far too long. It ends now. No more tyranny of location. No more being oppressed, controlled, and jerked around, simply because of your immediate and long term physical proximity on an earth you were rightfully born on (unless of course you are trespassing on private property, which you should not do).

Will you choose to be on the right side of history and stand up for yourself and your children and grand children, or will you continue to be the biggest part of the problem and play along? The only way forward is complete voluntarism.

The Matrix has you, Neo. Don't let it continue. And the good news is, it's up to you. The bad news is, it's up to you.