Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
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One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
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.
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