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The State and the Sacred |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE SACRED AND THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY |
| Author: James V. Schall |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 3,901 Words, 21,800 Characters |
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No one who believes in gods according to the laws has ever voluntarily done an impious deed or let slip an illegal utterance unless he is suffering one of three things: either…he doesn't believe; or, second, he believes they exist but do not think about human beings; or, third, he believes they exist but do not think about human beings; or, third, he believes they are easily persuaded if they are brought sacrifices and prayers.
--Plato, The Laws, X, 885b (Bloom)
Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not from the world." Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came i...
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... and, in restoring it, save the state from a definition of itself that includes the sacred as its own. This latter is the position that by its own laws the state defines and enforced the final distinction between good and evil, subject to nothing else but itself. The primacy of the sacred is the reality we must also bear witness to even when our governors ask, cynically, "What is truth?" vbcrlf
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