#6 Cicero wrote:
***C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton have something to say about this, too. When people dropped Christianity and attempted to become “secular,” which goes a long way back, Satan stepped in.***
Excellent observation.
A government is either of God or of Satan. There is no third way, not in this universe.
First stated by Jesus: the parable of the man sweeping out his house, and the demon comes back plus 7 more. When you empty yourself of everything - including God - you have no more defenses. Nature abhors a vacuum, but Satan desires them.
When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he roams through waterless places in search of rest; and finding none, he says, “I will return to my house which I left.” And when he has come to it, he finds the place swept and clean. Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse that the first (Lk 11:24-25).