[Mrs. Don-o]

"If a place [England] where religious education is mandatory, where faith schools are paid for out of taxation, where Bishops sit in the legislature &c.&c. is "commie one-state secularized", I hate to think what the U.S. is."

As liberty declines, it is only too typical for the state to subsidize and control the Church. One has only to think of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Assoication, and the Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union, to realize that it is standard for atheistic communist governments to tolerate, and even pay for, religious institutions.

The whole point is to keep a tight rein on the clergy, maintain state censorship over seminaries and other religious institutions, and keep Almighty God firmly subordinated to the Ministry of Religious Activities.

[FloreatIacobus]

As liberty declines, it is only too typical for the state to subsidize and control the Church. One has only to think of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Assoication, and the Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union, to realize that it is standard for atheistic communist governments to tolerate, and even pay for, religious institutions.

The whole point is to keep a tight rein on the clergy, maintain state censorship over seminaries and other religious institutions, and keep Almighty God firmly subordinated to the Ministry of Religious Activities.

Looking at your post, I take it that you have no knowledge of the Church of England.