The American imperial civil religion (c. 1600?-2███) worshipped a triumvirate of three gods:

(1) Gold, the god of corporations and capital;

(2) Glory, the god of nationalism and exceptionalism;

(3) Gadzhi-siz, the god of settler-colonialism, especially pedophilia and genocide.[1]

Together, the triumvirate was called the “Holy Trinity” by its adherents (a reference to a religion practiced in the millenium-long Byzantine Empire), and the “Great Adversary” by its detractors (adherents of Islam described it as a greater evil than their adversary, Iblis).

The holiest day of this religion was called Election Day, where the eligible voters chose their preference of military figurehead between two imperial-approved candidates, who doubled as leaders of respective sects.[2] The second holiest day was called Inauguration Day, which was the day of symbolic action, where a new figurehead would be appointed. After the statutory month of vote tabulation, the holy electors would then empower the figurehead as military leader to be, who would then take the statutory month to prepare their symbolic actions and gain public acceptance of the holy electors’ decision.

The sect leaders often made speeches to their members where they would propose popular political reform, with the stated aim of receiving support for their sect by the voters.[3] However, their similarly appointed lawyers would use procedural tactics to prevent or heavily alter reforms which were undesired by the empire. On the common days, the sect leaders deflected blame to these lawyers and the other sect to explain why they failed to take such reform.

Notes:

[1] The translation of this god’s name is unclear. Some scholars hypothesize it comes from “Got you, sis” referring to the widespread pedophilia in the ruling class particularly famous starting in the 410th anniversary of the empire. Others hypothesize it may be related to “Goodbye” referring to the casual deliberate exterminations of contemporaneous civilizations.

[2] In imperial propaganda since the 250th anniversary, these were called as the Sect of Popular Rule, and the Sect of Public Affair. One should note that the idea of popular rule was carefully separated from public affairs.

[3] To avoid angering the gods, reform in foreign affairs were rarely proposed and almost never implemented.