USA: a culture war between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life.

The Slide Toward State Control

by Donald DeMarco

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One of the merits of the separation of Church and State is to insure that the State does not take over the Church. Over the past decades, however, Christians have been surrendering to Caesar, piece by piece, what belongs to Christ. As a direct result, religion has become more and more a private matter and less and less societal. The logical end of this series of surrenders is a totalitarian State. T. S. Eliot warned against this phenomenon in his 1965 book, The Aims of Education: “The assertion that a man’s religion is his private affair, that from the point of view of society it is irrelevant, may turn out in the end to lead to a situation very favorable in the establishment of a religion, or a substitute for religion, by the State.”

The widespread acceptance of divorce, co-habitation, contraception, abortion, pornography, indecent language, embryo research, an array of reproductive technologies, and same-sex marriage, together with a growing hostility toward pro-life advocates and those who support traditional marriage, has widened the gulf between the secular world and people of religion. This separation has set the stage for a culture war between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life.

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