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Municipalities tended to have more entrepreneurs if they had a high proportion of pensioners who were members of the Church of Sweden (the official state church until 2000) and a high proportion of right-wing voters.
The Obama administration has criticized the law, church groups have protested that it is discriminatory, and a federal court has issued a temporary injunction, ruling that immigration is a federal issue.
Similarly, until the AKP came to power and began to loosen restrictions, it was virtually impossible in Turkey to create a new church or synagogue, or to create a Jewish or Christian foundation.
By contrast, Scotland’s institutional landscape – schools and universities with their own curriculum and exam structures, a legal system with its own codes and rules, a church independent of the state, and a distinctive system of local government – were left untouched by the union.
In Dugin’s ideal future, a medieval social order would return, the empire would be restored, and the Orthodox church would assume control over culture and education.
“The revival of church unity is a crucial condition for revival of lost unity of the whole ‘Russian world,’ which has always had the Orthodox faith as one of its foundations,” Putin said at a ceremony marking the occasion.
In the UK, the sovereign is not only head of state but also head of the church.
No one could credibly argue that, say, Denmark is less committed to liberal democracy or is less tolerant than, say, France or Italy, despite the fact that Denmark recognizes an official state church and France and Italy are avowedly secular.
But is the particular relationship between church and state at the time of the French and American Revolutions the model that Europe wishes to propagate in the rest of the world today?
The state has changed, and the church has changed even more.
British politicians have also begun to protest, even though criticizing the BoE was long considered tantamount to blaspheming in church.
A denomination has the characteristics of a church, into which one is born, but individuals adhere to it voluntarily and it accepts other denominations’ right to exist.
The relation of divine and secular fuels passionate debate throughout the Islamic world and in Israel, but the Orthodox idea of sinfonia – the harmonious unity between society, state, and church – constitutes a distinctive challenge to the acceptance of liberal democracy.
Whatever else liberalism is, it has always stood for the separation of church and state.
On the left, civilized Jacobins support opera as one of the ways of conducting Voltaire’s war against the church by other means.
Some even host “mapping parties,” at which communities gather around computers, in schoolyards or church halls, to add layers of detail that extend beyond topography.
The country is home to every faith known to mankind, and Hinduism – a religion that not only lacks a national organization, established church, or ecclesiastical hierarchy, but also uniform beliefs or modes of worship – exemplifies our diversity as much as it does our common cultural heritage.
The medieval system that preceded it, based on a universal church and empire, perished during the Reformation.
But their visit to Russia’s largest church was not in vain – footage of five women, dressed in glowing dresses and balaclavas while jumping in front of the altar, circulated widely on the Internet.
The song’s refrain – “Mother of God, drive Putin away!” – incited the wrath of both church and state.
But the new-old church could not turn back time.
If it became a symbol, it was of Putin’s new Russia, with its mix of jingoistic nationalism and state religion; so any attack on a monument embodying the unity of church and state under Putin could not go unpunished.
The sect had bombed a church in Madalla, a town on the outskirts of Abuja, on Christmas Day, killing 45 worshippers, and its spokesmen then demanded that all Christian southerners residing in the north leave.
In that sense, as Columbia University’s Jagdish Bhagwati said to me, “the TPP was a bit like allowing people to play golf in a club, but only if they also attended a particular church over the weekend.”
The US is unique in this scenario, because it had a strong national interest in both the golf and the church.
As in other Latin or Mediterranean countries with a strong Catholic tradition, Italian society long ago learned to accept serenely a life of duplicity: on the one hand, a strong attachment to church and family values, and on the other a second life – often lived in plain sight – composed of mistresses and other “dubious” connections.
The Kremlin’s campaign against gay rights has secured the support of the church, while reminding ordinary Russians that the state takes a watchful interest in their lives.
And he has a more humane attitude toward homosexuals, even if he has not opposed church doctrine on sexual behavior.
After all, a Christian believer, as the Pope must be, would have to assume that questions of good and evil, and how to behave ethically, are prescribed by church doctrine and holy texts.
More broadly, Pope Francis has shown courage and wisdom in embracing a more decentralized church structure, and envisioning an inclusive church that is a “home for all.”
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