Neroon on church and state

Neroon warns against a religious leader exercising political and military power.

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News & Politics

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• Babylon 5
• Neroon
• church and state
• religion
• politics

[vrm3vrm3]

Probably only to the libertarian right wing who loves Sci Fi.

[vrm3vrm3]

Most Teabaggers are libertarian and shun social issues like mixing church and state. Go to the Washington Post and search for "Tea party groups choose to stand mute on same-sex marriage ruling" Or New York Times and search for "Basis of Ruling on Gay Unions Stirs Debate" You will surprised! Tea Party does not equal social conservative. Those are who Neroon should visit.

[Joe402]

@vrm3vrm3

The government was almost shutdown by tea party demands involving social issues like the ones involving planned parenthood.

Look at how naive you are.

[vrm3vrm3]

@Joe402

Don't you think that was a maneuver to focus the Left on social programs while the real goal was spending in general? The "deal" in the end was larger cuts in all spending, which miffed the Left, while the Right accepted funding Planned Parenthood and the elimination of the EPA policy changes. Social policy changes were exchanged for great budget cuts -- diabolically clever!

[truellaksala]

So true.

Neroon is awesome.

[SAMagic]

It's never failed yet - oh wait.

[endlessw]

@Xerxes2005 well no and yes. this was after Delenn had destroyed the ruing council and started building war ships for the coming shadow war. he thought he should take the rangers under his control to keep Delenn from becoming too powerful. he goes to kill her but he meets Marcus nearly kills Marcus but Marcus proves to Neroon in his willingness to die for her like a Minbari, even though he is human, that she is the right person for the job.

[Xuldarinar]

Church, State.  Cesium, Water. Valuable separate but never mix them.

[Xerxes2005]

Minbar is like an Indo-European society with its tripartite divisions: oratores, bellatores and laboratores (priests, warriors and workers). In a way, it's medieval Europe or India with "checks and balances", trying to manage a delicate equilibrium between the casts to govern their civilization. This clip is taken from the episodes when the warrior cast tries to take all power, if I remember well. It does not end well for him.

[thealphadale]

This is a very "edited" version of Neroon, any true fan of the series, knows, in the end, Neroon, comes to the realization that Delin was right and he takes her place and sacrifices himself and claims unto her, that his heart "always" was of the Religious cast.... so all these pointless, half witted political remarks using Neroon as an example of "your opinion being right" is ludicrous... PS... the Government has shut down before and guess what... life marched on!

[Lightingwarrior]

Neroon may come off bad at times, but he isn't wrong about this, as I agree full heartily, History has show as much, even in todays world you can see the same thing happening

[legendarytoyou]

@Joe402 you learn something new everyday. The Tea Party endorsed a Planned Parenthood method? oy...thats like taking a pair pliers and squeezing your dick until it bursts. You have to understand though NOBODY takes the Tea Party seriously because their methods/ideals are to extreme. I heard one they wanted to outlaw all motor vehicles and electrical appliances, nice way to cut down on pollution oh but..CRIPPLES THE FUCK OUT OUR ECONOMY!!! not one good brain among them.

[Helge129]

@OneTrueEdge Wisdom? Fuck no.

[raggedcritical]

@ravensheart1369 And right after that she proceeded to give the balance of power to the Worker caste (the unions, basically) because the religious and military castes had been busy screwing things up it was the workers who were building everything and keeping it running.

I watched it an age ago so I may a detail or two wrong.

[OneTrueEdge]

The Religious Caste is the administrative sect for a reason -- because religion represents spirituality, philosophy and wisdom.

It's only when it becomes corrupted by those who do not truly understand its tenets that it becomes oppressive and malicious.

Hence the other two castes.

[ravensheart1369]

You do know how the story ended right? He realized Delen was in the right and had the just cause and that HE was the one blinded by bigotry and protection of the elite and status quo