With 'divine' rule you have slightly randomized traits in your rulers. Now we provide a path for the worst people to game the rules.

"Every kind of 'justice' other than absolute equality will, in practice, reward some quality quite other than virtue, and is therefore to be condemned." - Russell

i mean capital is a sort of theology

it definitely seems like they succeeded at this too because everyone was clowning on the english king's golden throne but people don't react the same way to squillion dollar suits and makeup

at least Louis XIV put on some cool ballets

The legitimacy of one's tribal god was always defined by the tribal might of the nation.

You'll notice how Yahweh was defeated early in the Bible and then came back to kick ass.

*looks at the whole of the roman empire history*

dang.

let alone prosperity doctrine capital == mandate of heaven

It's really ironically boring philosophically. Some extrapolation of meaning from meta, super, or transcendental forces to how many ice shakers bezo has on his yacht.

letit af en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenoplectus_acutus

As a Vintage Story player my ears pricked up, LOL

base it on how many gods you kill instead

Worse still, this was one post up,
bsky.app/profile/jcsalterego.bsky.social/post/3mj6qexjais2a

Oh how we have fallen!