88Devin07
Orthodox Catholic Church
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Doesn't Libertarianism eventually prevent the Church and the State from working together?
Shouldn't the end goal be such a relationship?
I see it all this way... The Church changes people's hearts and minds. However, eventually the State has to change, and work with the Church. You get a relationship such as the Roman Empire or the Russian Empire. Of course, even those empires had problems with the relationship, but things can be easily ironed out and improved.
Instead of taking the typical American Protestant perspective of "Church and State should be Separate", shouldn't we take a perspective that the Church and the State should remain separate, but work together to the same goal?
Doesn't Libertarianism, by its own nature prevent this?
Isn't the more Orthodox idea the idea of working together in a common direction rather than total separation? We aren't out to provide religious freedom and never have been. The goal is the salvation of human beings. If the government is truly there to protect people, why can't it put laws into place that helps protect people spiritually as well as physically?
When you have a heretic arise, what is wrong with exiling that heretic out of the country and away from the population? Isn't that protection?
Also as for the much earlier posted quote from St. John Chrysostom, I think that is more of a statement against Socialism and Communism than it is a statement that could be in support of Libertarianism.
Doesn't Libertarianism eventually prevent the Church and the State from working together?
Shouldn't the end goal be such a relationship?
I see it all this way... The Church changes people's hearts and minds. However, eventually the State has to change, and work with the Church. You get a relationship such as the Roman Empire or the Russian Empire. Of course, even those empires had problems with the relationship, but things can be easily ironed out and improved.
Instead of taking the typical American Protestant perspective of "Church and State should be Separate", shouldn't we take a perspective that the Church and the State should remain separate, but work together to the same goal?
Doesn't Libertarianism, by its own nature prevent this?
Isn't the more Orthodox idea the idea of working together in a common direction rather than total separation? We aren't out to provide religious freedom and never have been. The goal is the salvation of human beings. If the government is truly there to protect people, why can't it put laws into place that helps protect people spiritually as well as physically?
When you have a heretic arise, what is wrong with exiling that heretic out of the country and away from the population? Isn't that protection?
Also as for the much earlier posted quote from St. John Chrysostom, I think that is more of a statement against Socialism and Communism than it is a statement that could be in support of Libertarianism.
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