On the origin of a separation between religion and politics

If you think about human behavior from the perspective of the biological origin of social behavior the hallowed separation between religion and politics doesn't look so hallowed. The separation seems to have developed mainly in Judaic-Christian societies as the result of trying to accommodate multicultural and multiracial societies.

The Hebrew tribes were continually dominated by the Persians, the Greeks, the Syrians and Egypt, and the Romans, and they survived by having a separation between religion and politics in multicultural and multiracial societies. This conception fed into Christianity and the founding of America.

That separation between religion and politics continued to be necessary to Jewish survival right up to the twentieth century founding of Israel---and it is still important for Jews living in multicultural and multiracial societies like America and Europe.

It seems common sense that moral and political bonds are stronger in homogeneous societies with less survival need for a separation between religion and politics, perhaps like present day Israel, which has moved ever closer to having no separation between religion and politics---now that they have their own land the presence of Palestinians in their midst seems to have led them not to a multicultural society but to an even more nationalistic Israel.

It should be obvious that multicultural and multiracial societies breed resentment in the population. Nietzsche hypertrophied "resentment" as at the origin of the development of Judaic-Christian societies, he therefore rejected religion preferring the winning Greeks and Romans to the Jews and Christians who they enslaved---underplaying the vital bonding qualities of religion.

In any case, this is one more reason why I think ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates are desirable, they have less of the squabbling and competition of multicultural and multiracial societies which ends up weakening and even destroying them. It also explains why it is difficult to develop ethnostates in Judaic-Christian societies founded on the separation between religion and politics.

If Israel---now having less survival need for a separation between religion and politics---can move toward a more homogeneous ethnostate, why can't the U. S. develop ethnostates where the moral and political bonds can be stronger in homogeneous societies which have less survival need for a separation between religion and politics? In the U. S. an ethnopluralism of ethnostates could legally work in harmony with federalism and the Constitutional separation of powers and states.