Russell Kirk Quotes About Church
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.
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Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail.
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Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.
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If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
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