Ultrafilters, Dictators, and Gods

We will show how a well-known and elementary fact about ultrafilters can be reinterpreted both politically and theologically, thus providing simple proofs of two central results in these areas. Mathematicians can consider such formulations as the true essence of such results. Outsiders can find comfort in a saying by Goethe, who once said (Maxime und Reflectionen, 1729): “Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: as soon as you tell them something, they translate it into their own language, and it immediately appears different”.