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From the Conservative perspective, God everywhere all the time can be interpreted, as that government should promote God and be God's government. In this case the government would reflect the definition of God and the religion as practiced. It is here contended that true conservatism, in terms of religion or spirituality, when polytheistic with many gods and spirits, may promote many localized types of governments, reflecting the local religion as practiced. With many gods and spirits the more tolerant generally is the population and the more democratic may be the institutions of public organizations.

It is also here contended that the problems with the fascism associated with the absence of the separation of church and state, the tendency to be very prohibitive, accompanied by often draconian strictness and severity, stifling freedom of thought, word and action is not because it is Conservative, but because it is monotheist and monotheism is Progressive. There is a spiritual tradition of the One, as a unity of all things as an existence as one single organism, and as such is the here and now all the time. However this reality is pluralistic encompassing millions of varying and distinctive life forms and species and encompasses all of nature. The problem with monotheism is when it becomes an intellectualized abstract ideal as perfection, in opposition to what is natural and the natural world.

Idealized monotheism is a progressed ideal since it does not naturally exist but has to be developed, educated or indoctrinated. Progress is the advance to a more perfect state. This state is an ideal. People are expected to conduct themselves so as to conform to the ideal. Thus whatever the ideal is, determines the expected conduct. This ideal is almost always the opposite of what is natural. The ideal when religious is heavenly in dynamic and an intellectual construct, and almost always represents perfection in opposition to the natural world. From this perfected ideal authoritarianism arises. True conservatism takes the blame for authoritarian religious practices.

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