5 SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
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ideological precept
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what counts for religious “extremism” is merely what until very, very recently was considered normal.
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The truth is that both the ACLU and the Christian Coalition are more ideologically similar than they are different.
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the general notion that we should be free to worship as we please is greeted as profoundly and ideologically radical.
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The separation of church and state has its roots in the West, with Jesus’ injunction to “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s”
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the Church was still the ultimate moral authority.
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when Emperor Theodosius slaughtered the Thessalonians, Archbishop Ambrose of Milan was so repulsed that he refused to give the emperor holy communion.
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the most powerful ruler in the entire world mimicked the biblical David, dressing in rags like a beggar
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One wonders if John Kerry would have submitted to a similar penance
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Over time the papacy’s moral authority increased.
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power of investiture,
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But the Protestant Reformation fractured Western
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Bloody religious wars ensued,
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“In 1555,” writes James Q. Wilson, “the Peace of Augsburg settled the religious wars briefly with the phrase cuius regio, eius religio
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The toothpaste was out of the tube.
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The Peace of Westphalia advanced the cause of religious liberty
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Oliver Cromwell led a Presbyterian rebellion against the throne,
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Ultimately Parliament passed the Toleration Act, permitting believers of various Protestant faiths to follow their religion
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The Puritans came to America to escape religious persecution.
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Maryland for Catholics, Georgia for Baptists, Massachusetts for Red Sox fans, and so on.
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Founders barred the establishment of a religion by the federal government
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But they saw no problem with the various American states establishing their own official churches.
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no objection to official displays of religiosity.
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hire a chaplain.
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what kind of civilization we want to live in. And there is no way to wall off religion from those debates.
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it is impossible to separate the role of religion—or the lack of it—in our own hearts.
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It is beyond absurd to say that your religious faith informs your conception of the cosmos and your place in it, morality, and human purpose, but then also to say that your religious faith will have nothing whatsoever to do with your decision making as an elected official.
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If a politician runs openly and honestly on his values, we should not be scandalized
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we should not be surprised that his values are informed by his religion.
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But wait a second. Kerry says his religious faith drives him to fight for the poor and the environment and all of that stuff. But when it comes to abortion, he suddenly cannot impose an article of his faith.
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how are environmental or antipoverty policies driven by faith not an imposition of faith?
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Obama believes the bible tells him to push his agenda. Is that not an imposition of his faith?
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Christians made a fundamental error by holding that salvation lies in the next life.
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Christianity is primarily concerned with this world,
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Woodrow Wilson shared this vision.
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it’s almost impossible to speak of progressivism as anything other than a fundamentally Christian movement.
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social gospel minister Walter Rauschenbusch proclaimed that if God couldn’t be a liberal progressive then we needed a new god entirely.
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liberalism lacks the vocabulary and the faith to connect these dots any longer. The god of lower food prices may not be the god of Abraham,
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