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to not believe in the church but still believe in the state, is literally like saying:
I don't believe in Spider-Man, but i have a close relationship with Batman and one day he will save us all
- Depends what you mean by believe. The state exists..********
- so does the churchbliznutty
- believing in jesus isn't like believing in the state, not literally or otherwisemonospaced
- believing in jesus is believing in the principles and not the authoritarian system of the church. similar to principles of liberty vs. the authoritarian statebliznutty
- nah.sarahfailin
- Yup********
- Most people aren't economists or philosophers so a good deal of the social contract we participate in is an act of faith********
- My people starve for lack of knowledge.yurimon
- once believing in jesus was the state by having the pope a representative of mono. this is historic to theocracy is was as real to people as the state is now.yurimon
- Your meaning is unclear********
- Who the bothers not believing in churches? It's the concept of God that people question the value of believing in - not a church.detritus
- Churches are just the human-scale control structures whose authority is pretty much solely given by the aforesaid belief in deity.detritus
- I'm glad I'm not shackled by a belief in supernatural deities, their children, their expectations or their promises of the afterlifemonospaced
- the state, even in my limited understanding, at least makes sense in a tangible waymonospaced
- Just keep the two separate. Please. or the Pope will rule the world soon.robthelad
- Depends what you mean by believe. The state exists..