HSRP-536

Persecution and authoritarian rule go with the state's regulation of religion more than with an established church, secular states included: the hazard is coercive power joined to conscience.

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1. Header

Number: HSRP-536
Category: Civilizational Analysis
Grade: WORKING
Status: ACTIVE
Entry form: Full
First entered: Not recorded — added to the register in supplement 027
Last revised: 2026-10-13
Register entry: https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-536

2. The claim, in full

Persecution and authoritarian rule go with the state's regulation of religion more than with an established church, secular states included: the hazard is coercive power joined to conscience.

Cited on: /the-hive-mind, THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND › Religion and obedience, measured. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W3a-17.

3. What it rests on

Across nations, persecution and authoritarian rule go with the state's regulation of religion more than with an established church, and atheist and secular states have restricted belief as hard as theocracies [SRC-990] [SRC-991] [SRC-992]. The hazard is coercive power joined to conscience, as Madison saw.

Source: none linked in the register

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

No source is linked to this observation in the register.

5. Counter-evidence

No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.

6. Why this grade

regulation PROBABLE; the hazard WORKING

The register defines WORKING as: A hypothesis or projection consistent with the evidence so far, but not yet confirmable.

7. Correction history

2026-10-13: BATCH 3 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from WHERE YOU'LL FIND IT, CULTS, THE PARTY HIVE MIND or THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND — wording unchanged. The page's reference numbers were converted to SRC numbers at extraction.

8. Related observations

HSRP-535 · PROBABLE · Believers in a personal God pick obedience as a value for children more often than atheists, a difference of degree; that a strict upbringing forms the adult authoritarian character is not yet found.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-537 · WORKING · Religion has also been a chief ground of resistance to rulers, from the 830s to Leipzig in 1989, as have secular bodies with an authority above the state.
Relation: not recorded

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

The Programmable Hive Mind
“Persecution and authoritarian rule go with the state's regulation of religion more than with an established church, secular states included: the hazard is coercive power joined to conscience — regulation PROBABLE; the hazard WORKING”

10. Open questions

Not yet recorded for this observation.

11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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