The state must have to do with religion
August 30, 2022•121 words
The fundamental maxim of the Voluntary theory, that 'the state, as the state, has nothing to do with religion,' is a principle which, from the very necessity of the case, can never be realized. The state must have to do with religion, and that in the way, if not of friendly co-operation and consent, then of hostility and opposition. If it were possible for the state in any country to disown all connection of a friendly kind with religion, natural and revealed, the inevitable tendency would be, either for the want of religion to destroy the state, or for the state to destroy religion.
—James Bannerman, 'The Church of Christ'
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