“Prior to and during [John] Locke’s time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state began. The powers of both were often combined. As a result, churches frequently used the force of the state to promote and enforce their interests and doctrines. This caused horrendous atrocities against Jews and heretics, as well as the European religious wars between Catholics and Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.”
“The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind – each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.”
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Author: Joseph C. Sommer
Keywords: State religion, mark of the beast, number of the beast, 666, six six six, Napoleon, Napolean, Napoleon Bonaparte, state church, Church and state, Marx, Carl Marx, religion opiate masses, religion opiate of the people, state sponsored religion, worship the beast, worshipping the beast, French Revolution, Catholic church, roman catholic church, magisterial reformers, government, government leader, voting, politics, political, political involvement, political system
Bible reference(s): Revelation 13, Rev 17
Source: “ Church and State Quotes ,” Humanism by Joe.
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