One commenter on a recent post said that he doesn’t see the state considering the church as direct competition. I believe this is untrue both in principle and in fact; in principle because for a liberal state the only truth can be that all are free to believe what they want so long as they don’t infringe on the rights of others to believe what they will, and in fact because the political theorists behind modern liberalism explicitly regarded the church as a competitor.*
By Nic Don at Theopolitical
http://theopolitical.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/your-beliefs-are-officially-untrue-10/
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