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More would not accept the king’s assertion of supremacy over the
church.
Actually he himself did not like the identification of his
church
with civil society.
This meant that his image if not his words reached out to millions who do not belong to his
church.
God Crashes the Tea PartyOXFORD – Where does America put God?Historically, there has always been tension between the separation of
church
and state that the United States has enshrined in its Constitution and regular upsurges of religious faith, even religious extremism, that seek an outlet in the political process – or even seek to dominate it.
This anti-establishmentarian impulse is a time-honored tradition in America, where advocacy of separation of
church
and state – a radical view in the late eighteenth century – was driven by the experiences of religious minorities such as Quakers, Huguenots, and Puritans, all of whom suffered religious persecution in Britain and France.
A former Jesuit, Bergoglio was raised in a religious order – founded in the sixteenth century to oppose the Protestant Reformation – that is known for its power inside the
church
and its desire for wider political influence.
He memorably declared that the
church
belongs to everyone, and that the devil sometime wears a cassock.
When Pope Benedict XVI resigned, she shocked Argentine Catholics by joking that she would try to be a “papisa,” that is, if princesses of the
church
were allowed.
He is considered a misogynist, with views on women’s role in society identical to those propagated by the
church
in the Middle Ages.
If he fails in this task, the high expectations that he has raised after John Paul II (who addressed reports of pedophilia by dispatching them to the archives) and Benedict XVI (who was too feeble to act) will turn against him and his
church.
Think of it as the order of the
church
choir, where individual members cooperate on the basis of a shared culture and values.
His vision of “a
church
that is poor and for the poor” has earned him the moniker the “People’s Pope.”
Though
church
doctrine still holds that marriage is a union between a man and a woman that cannot be broken, his language of tolerance toward homosexuals and the divorced is earthshaking, if not quite groundbreaking.
What an outcry from the academy – not the Swedish one, mind you, but that of the world
church
of literaturology.
Last November, when Muslim zealots attacked a Coptic
church
in Alexandria, several Copts were injured.
For example, the young female performers in the punk band Pussy Riot, who dared to sing derogatory songs about Putin in an Orthodox church, were charged with “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and received two years in prison.
Separation of
church
and state does not mean mutual ignorance.
France is often seen as a special case, because of its long history of strict separation of
church
and state.
After the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery in January 2015, there was the mass murder committed at the Bataclan theater and other Paris sites in November 2015; the truck attack on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais this summer; the subsequent murder at a Catholic
church
in Normandy of a beloved priest, whose throat was cut during mass; the attack on a private home outside Paris, where a married couple of police officers were murdered in front of their child; and the stabbing of a Jewish man in Strasbourg this month.
More broadly, schools should also embody the separation of
church
and state – and well-protected religious freedom – that will be needed to end religion-based violence in the Middle East.
Finally, Marguerite Barankitse, a Burundian of Tutsi ethnicity, tried to hide scores of her Hutu neighbors in a
church
during the bloody convulsions of 1993.
Similarly, during the French Revolution, speculation in a paper currency pegged to “national” property that had been confiscated from aristocrats and the
church
undermined the Jacobins’ legitimacy.
Gutenberg’s printing press democratized communications, which had long been monopolized by
church
scribes.
Terrified by the violence there, she and 12,000 other Christians fled to a camp for displaced people next to the
church
in the town of Alindao, close to where a United Nations peacekeeping contingent was based.
The militia had attacked and were firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at the camp and church, both of which they burned to the ground.
Right-wing Catholics have made common cause with evangelical Protestants, who view Trump as an unholy savior who will overturn abortion rights and various barriers between
church
and state.
The problem is that people in the highest positions of authority are pushing at the barriers between
church
and state, erected so carefully by America’s founders to ensure that the people, not God, would govern.
That the person seeking to tear down the wall between
church
and state is Trump, a man of no known faith, who has done more damage to the moral order than any of Barr’s imagined secular enemies, should seem odd.
The early Christian
church
used to argue about something called consubstantiality when debating the nature of a three-in-one God.
At one point, around 100 people were trapped by police in a
church
on Independence Square, which attracted still more demonstrators to the scene outside.
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