statolatry

In terms used in the philosophy of fascism, that is statolatry.

Think Progress » Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Views Divide Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2010

Not even the most respectable churches and religious denominations have reached an accurate diagnosis of the problem: that today statolatry poses the main threat to free, moral, and responsible human beings; that the state is an enormously powerful false idol which is worshipped by all and which will not countenance anyone's freeing himself from its control nor having moral or religious loyalties outside its own sphere of dominance.

Mises Dailies 2009

The state then places the blame for problems on these scapegoats and makes them the target of popular anger and of the severest and most emphatic condemnation from moral and religious leaders, almost none of whom has seen through the deception nor dared until now to denounce that in this century, statolatry represents the chief threat to religion, morality, and thus, human civilization.

Mises Dailies 2009

This philosophy is, of course, incompatible with statolatry. [

current.com top stories 2010

National Review commentator Jonah Goldberg, in his timely book "Liberal Fascism," wrote eloquently of statism, saying, "[President Woodrow] Wilson's view of politics could be summarized by the word, 'statolatry,' or state worship.

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