The development trajectory of European states (on which modern nation-states are modeled) may in fact be based on the Pharaonic influence on Christianity. This influence is visible not only in obvious relics like the obelisk of Ramses in front of the Vatican, but also in the structure of the Roman Catholic priest class.

The Pope was considered infallible, meaning that he was believed to be completely free from error. He was thus elevated to the status of a partner of Allah. This has analogues in the political structure of Pharaonic Egypt. The ruler was considered to be an actual incarnation of a god on earth. Of course, this would mean that his authority should be absolute.

This doctrine was also expressed in the Bible:

“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.”

Romans 13:1

So all authority is divinely mandated, and must be obeyed. In the European context, the Pope became an object of worship (in obedience) like the Pharaoh. The rise of democracy was the rejection of this divine authority, which in itself was a correct action, but it was simply replaced with a distributed form of the same infallible authority. Instead of an infallible Pope, the will of the people was granted the same status of absolute sovereignty.

If the Pope was elevated to the level of a partner with Allah, the modern world system elevates “the people” to the level of Allah. All of this begins with conceptualizing Allah as a human being. Once a person becomes accustomed to the idea of assigning divine authority to one human being, it becomes much easier to make the leap to assigning it to more human beings.

As the development of the nation-state continued after the Protestant Reformation, the state slowly took over the functions of the Church, but the divine conception of state authority remained. When there is an implicit assumption that state authority is divine, the state will continuously develop in such a way so as to shape itself in the image of God.

Nation-states developed more and more surveillance capacity, documenting the number of their citizens, their age, gender, race, educational performance, address, and other information. As time goes on, the state grows toward becoming all-seeing and all-knowing. The state’s military and police power also increases, as it strives towards the attribute of being all-powerful. Likewise, academia and science advance as the state seeks to become perfectly wise.

The state enters into education, and starts to shape the minds of its citizens as part of its effort to exert total, God-like control over them. Citizens are trained to worship the symbols of the state as a means of extending this control and submission. The state provides medical care, and the citizens begin to believe that the state holds the power of life and death in its hand.

Technology becomes a means of further concentrating and centralizing power, because in order to remain competitive, it is necessary to automate and increase the scale of production, and this requires access to finance. More and more economic functions transfer to corporations, and these corporations gradually agglomerate into larger and largercorporations. The corporations that help the state the most are rewarded with support, and grow bigger.

As power becomes increasingly concentrated, it becomes easier to convince people that those in power are worthy of worship, because they increasingly take on the role of provider and protector, and their subjects become increasingly dependent on them. Contraception and decreasing fertility is key to this process. Large families are more likely to support each other, while those that are socially isolated are more likely to depend on, and thus support, the state. So the state encourages homosexuality and contraception.

On the surface, it appears that the military expresses the will of the people. So citizens hold a small bit of the seemingly divine power, but only if they submit by recognizing the divinity of the abstract “higher power” of the nation, which is in reality the power of a small number of individuals.

It appears that submission to the state is the key to sustenance. Your safety, your food, your freedom, all depend on submitting in small ways, every day. And it appears that the state is forcing you to submit for your own good.

But many times, you find that you are forced to do things and submit to things that don’t make any sense or seem immoral. Since many of the other things you were forced to do seemed beneficial (or you were rewarded for them) you already have the habit of obeying, so you accept. And the habits deepen, such that you are not even aware of them, and you pass them onto your children.