Schmitt draws several similarities between the power of the sovereign and God or theology, the most prominent of which is that they are equivalent parallels to each other in the basis of their power. Both God and the sovereign have unlimited power, and can use it to do lead and command those under their power. Because God and the sovereign are parallel equals, people are capable of rebelling against each in the same way, which can be described by fighting God by fighting the state. By fighting the sovereign they are under, they are effectively pressuring against any higher power, which would include God. Through the notion that all significant concepts of the state are secularized theological concepts, it can be concluded that society can push
