{"id":7213,"date":"2023-02-26T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:37:27","slug":"116-inventing-god-and-law-god-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=7213","title":{"rendered":"116. Inventing God and Law: God Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1543\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-J.webp\" alt=\"Josiah's kingdom didn't last long. Within 23 years it was erased just as Israel had been, and for the exact same reason.\" class=\"wp-image-9922\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-J.webp 1200w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-J-768x988.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e079ca0238d1099263862' value='69e079ca0238d1099263862'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e079ca0238d1099263862' value='View Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e079ca0238d1099263862' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e079ca0238d1099263862' ><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Constitutional Law<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Part 2: \u201cWhat Were They Thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Digression: \u201cA History of Government in 6 Revolutions: From the Paleolithic to Philadelphia\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">116. Inventing God and Law: God is Dead<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Title: Part J: God is Dead<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 1: A map stretching from the foot of Italy to India, from Tunisia to Somalia. The territories of the Neo-Babylonian Empire are colored a dark teal blue, with the territory of Yehudah highlighted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Sadly, it couldn\u2019t last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Soon, Yehudah was once again a small province in a big empire\u2014now the Neo-Babylonian Empire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Then Josiah\u2019s heirs wound up <strong>repeating<\/strong> the same mistake that Israel had made\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u2026allying with Egypt, rebelling against Babylon\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>\u2026twice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">-=-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 2: In the distance, Jerusalem is burning. Along a road snaking away from the city, a multitude of people march away, carrying their belongings in bundles or in hand carts. Armed soldiers watch from a hillside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Babylon responded in the <strong>civilized<\/strong> way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As usual, they marched off the elites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They executed all of the king\u2019s sons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And Jerusalem itself was razed to rubble\u2026 its temple utterly <strong>demolished.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">(Most of Jerusalem\u2019s population had already fled, as refugees, to other provinces with other gods.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">23 years after Josiah\u2019s death, his newly-centralized state had been reduced to an impoverished, sparsely-populated waste.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SOLDIER 1:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">That was <strong>one<\/strong> way to prevent institutional decay, I guess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SOLDIER 2:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">At least we\u2019ll have no more trouble with these incorrigible Yahweh-worshippers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u2026their god is <strong>dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e079ca0238d1099263862' class='bg-showmore-plg-link bg-arrow '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>View Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,35,63,60,1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-brief-history-of-government","category-constitutional-law","category-inventing-the-law","category-the-institution-revolution","category-uncategorized","category-what-were-they-thinking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10587,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}