"For a state to exist without a religion of some sort being united to it, is a solecism in the world, the new revolutionary democracy of America being the first that ever attempted it; so that the experience of four thousand years in every corner of the globe, might have taught some diffidence to those who fondly dream that the Christian religion would thrive equally well if the king were an atheist, and if it had no more protection or encouragement from him than Mahometanism, Judaism, or Deism. Woe be to that king and to that nation in which such maxims shall ever prevail." Drummond, Social Duties on Christian Principles, 1830, p 155.
A SECULAR REPUBLIC CANNOT OFFER THE PROSPECT OF A STABLE ORDER
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