Robert, no - but it sounds interesting. The notion of a "national religion" being inherently "false" in favor of the mystic experience and its inherent truth, has a profound personal appeal - that's why the clergy have so little use for their own mystics. However, the particulars of a religion that give the I-and-Thou of a singular mystic experience its flavor, can only be appreciated in its absence. That is, how is it that mystic experiences have so much trouble occuring outside of known religious vocabularies? And it is those religious characters that crystalize into "national" religion, when the religious and political entities share roughly the same boundaries (I am thinking of the Jewish case here, and to some extent the Moslem concept of the umma. These are more properly described as religions than Hitler's bonfire-and-stomping festivals.)
Mysticism.
All fun and games 'til somebody loses an I.
Dan
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