I prefer the former.
Or England under Oliver’s Army.
“I prefer the former.”
No, Lofton’s view of government is Washington’s America and Buckley’s is Payne’s America.
I prefer the former.”
Me too. I read Paul Johnson’s “A History of Christianity” and was appalled how Christianity degraded itself once it got power within the Roman government. With the fall of Rome, Christianity supplied the structure that people needed in its vacuum. Bishops took the role of Roman Senators. People did not distinguish between civil and ecclesiastical authority. Politics entered the Church—and the Church abused its power.
Then when the Protestants rebelled against Catholicism, they repeated the error, blending Church with State and leading to the 30 years war in Germany. In both examples, Protestant and Catholic, Church and State suffer when blended.
Finally in the US, we split the government from religion and we have had the most successful, prosperous nation in history, and the only major economic power with a strong Christian base in its population.
The failure lies not in Christ, but in humanity and our inability to govern ourselves, let alone others. The wisdom of our nation’s founders in separating the powers of government was, in my opinion, divinely inspired. May we return to such wisdom and follow the Constitution again.
I prefer the former.
You would not have Washington's America without Calvin's Geneva:
All this has been thoroughly understood and candidly acknowledged by such penetrating and philosophic historians as Bancroft, who far though he was from being Calvinistic in his own personal convictions, simply calls Calvin "the father of America," and adds: "He who will not honor the memory and respect the influence of Calvin knows but little of the origin of American liberty."
Calvinism in America
Cordially,
Me too.