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Maybe you've seen the article that should go
here. Send us the link Or send us the book or journal
article and we'll plagiarize it like all our other pages. Here's what it
says:
- There was never a "separation of church and state" in pre-Christian times.
- In many empires it's possible to argue for a separation between priest and prince, but
not a separation of god and government.
- Empires were always explicitly religious.
- Only Americans are too ignorant to realize that the State is god.
Here are links to a few empires:
Egypt
Israel
Greece
In Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes notes,
And first, we are to remember that the right of judging what doctrines are fit for
peace, and to be taught the subjects, is in all Commonwealths inseparably annexed (as hath
been already proved, Chapter eighteen) to the sovereign power civil, whether it be in one
man or in one assembly of men. For it is evident to the meanest capacity that men's
actions are derived from the opinions they have of the good or evil which from those
actions redound unto themselves; and consequently, men that are once possessed of an
opinion that their obedience to the sovereign power will be more hurtful to them than
their disobedience will disobey the laws, and thereby overthrow the Commonwealth, and
introduce confusion and civil war; for the avoiding whereof, all civil government was
ordained. And therefore in all Commonwealths of the heathen, the sovereigns have had the
name of pastors of the people, because there was no subject that
could lawfully teach the people, but by their permission and authority.
Hobbes, Leviathan, Part III, Chapter XLII
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