THESIS 60: THE CAMARADERIE OF "CHURCH" AND STATE

The world's wise and politically cushioned[220] reject the King.[221] Jewish religious leaders enlisted the State to support their rebellion.[222] Institutionalized religion always seeks the support of the State.[223] The secular State is often more Godly than the institutional "church,"[224] but the "church" convinces the State to be as lawless as the ecclesiocrats.[225]

Exposition

The Myth of the "Separation of Church and State"

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

220. e.g., John 11:48; 19:15

221. Luke 2:34; 1 Corinthians 2:6-9; Hosea 14:9

222. John 18:35

223. Revelation 13:11ff.

224. John 19:6

225. John 19:7-8,12-13,15

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