Wednesday, July 21, 2010

separation of church and state

The lesson that the West learned is that when the institutions of religion and government are one, and the secular authority is given the power to be the interpreter and enforcer of God's law, then horrible abuses of power are perpetrated in God's name. The West, as a consequence of its experience, learned to disentangle the institutions of religion and government--a separation that was most completely achieved in the United States.


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