tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post4537997823706121407..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Separation of Church and StateHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-73835572018089493912016-07-27T16:21:42.503-04:002016-07-27T16:21:42.503-04:00Many churches carry on without a coherent theology...Many churches carry on without a coherent theology.<br /><br />Hard to blame statists too much for carrying on a theocracy without a theology.Tim Kowalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196125161888520769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-70433213043890677522016-07-27T05:30:30.789-04:002016-07-27T05:30:30.789-04:00I wouldn't say "Church" so much, bec...I wouldn't say "Church" so much, because "Protestantism" is by its nature fractious, and so there is no one who can actually speak for "the Church."<br /><br />But there has been religious consensus in American society, and a government is to serve its society, not dictate or destroy it as is the current trajectory. Can a nation survive stripped of its soul??<br /><br /><i>Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. ...And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.</i>--GWash, Farewell Address, 1796<br /><br />Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com