Seperation of Church and State

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blueluna5

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SirSolaScriptura said:
I wholeheartedly believe in separation of church and state, the temporal governments and the Kingdom of Heaven:

"Church and State should be independent of each other:—he speaks of the duty of protesting “against the profanation of Christ’s kingdom, by that double usurpation, the interference of the Church in temporals, of the State in spirituals,” p. 191; and, secondly, that the Church may justly and by right retain its property, though separated from the State. “The clergy,” he says, p. 133, “though they ought not to be the hired servants of the Civil Magistrate, may justly retain their revenues; and the State, though it has no right of interference in spiritual concerns." (The Apologia Pro Vita Sua, John Henry Newman, Chapter One, Dove Thrift Editions).
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Highly against separation of church and state. The Bible is about the "kingdom of God" and contains religion. It's not a book about religion. It's its own government.

Now obviously people have screwed it up. Although I will say the united states had the most money and the highest education in the world when we were a Christian nation. Just imagine if we followed the laws set for criminals in the Bible. Instead we just have the innocent suffer. You can't have one without the other.
 
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