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To: redgolum

It’s hard to escape being the state church; Anglicans have the same problem. Hopefully the Orthodox solution will work out for them.


23 posted on 03/10/2014 9:50:54 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

Lutheran Synods are typicaly a bit easier. The German Free Church is Lutheran, and totally outside the state church.

The trouble is funding. The State collects taxes, and either gives it to the State church or to the Catholic church. People are not used to giving on Sunday.


26 posted on 03/10/2014 12:15:39 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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