Politics Has Always Had Gods
Even when societies claim to be secular, their politics still organizes around sacred objects. Nation; flag; leader; constitution; market. These function like gods. They define what is untouchable.
Carl Schmitt famously argued that all significant concepts of modern politics are secularized theological concepts. Sovereignty mirrors divine authority; the state of exception mirrors the miracle; the political enemy mirrors the theological concept of the damned. The vocabulary changes, but the structure remains.
This is not metaphor. Political systems genuinely require sacred objects—things that cannot be questioned, that anchor collective identity, that justify sacrifice. Without them, legitimacy collapses into mere calculation. Democracy sacralizes the people; monarchy sacralizes bloodlines; nationalism sacralizes territory and ethnic identity.
The question is never whether politics will have gods. The question is which gods it will serve and what they will demand. In mythic acceleration, the sacred objects are nation, race, and strongman leadership. These are not argued for; they are revealed. They do not require evidence; they require faith.