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Is this the kind of protection we receive in return for the rights we give up? Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1784

September 21, 2005

some things will never change

In the new system that Christ introduced, man belonged to the State by only a part of himself. Such a duality, however, bore within it the seeds of inevitable and recurring conflict. Two imperious forces shared the innermost loyalties of one and the same human being who had to work out his other-worldly salvation while at the same time fulfilling his earthly tasks as a member of the civic community.

Robert A. Graham, S.J., Vatican Diplomacy: A Study of Church and State on the International Plane (Princeton University Press, 1959)

posted by scott pilutik at September 21, 2005 01:51 PM

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