The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.