What is the alliance of throne and altar?
So the alliance was thrown in altar, refers to the back in the
day, it referred to how intellectuals the, the
government would basically employ Court intellectuals to
justify their interventions to the public.
So, the king would basically make a certain Church
established, this is the state church.
People must support the state Church, you must listen to the
priest etcetera and that That would, of course, the king would
give money to the priest to build a nice Church.
The priest would have the kings are, you know, the Kings ear get
priest would live a good life and in turn the priest would say
the king is divine. You have to listen to the king,
you have to fight for the king. You have to pay taxes for the
king. If you're conscripted, you have
to go out and fight for the king and some foreign war Etc.
So it was this alliance between the Throne of government and the
altar, right? So the the the, the religion,
the religious groups, which I Timer really, the only
intellectuals and this has continued into the modern era
because nowadays although there's not an explicit
religious element in intellectuals.
In there is a separation of church and state.
It's Court. Intellectuals are basically
academics employed by the government and state
universities, Etc because governments give them cushy jobs
or sinecures is they're called and in turn those intellectuals
justify the government. So they say, oh you have I pay
taxes, you have to wear a face mask, you have to adhere to this
regulation, all of this is good. It might not, you know, it's not
because God said so, but it's because it's promoting the
welfare of the public Etc and in return, those universities will
get cushy research grants in government subsidies and those
intellectuals will get nice jobs and so on and so forth.
So the alliance refers to the connection between the
government and intellectuals. I pay taxes, you have to wear a
face mask, you have to adhere to this regulation, all of this is
good. It might not, you know, it's not
because God said so, but it's because it's promoting the
welfare of the public Etc and in return, those universities will
get cushy research grants in government subsidies and those
intellectuals will get nice jobs and so on and so forth.
So the alliance refers to the connection between the
government and intellectuals.