Politics as spilt religion

David Warren, Essays in Idleness

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Our contemporaries are bewildered. They think that Christ has called us to advance His Kingdom by political means; or that good resides in the empty vessel we call the State. This is spilt religion; the wine poured, as it were, into the wrong jar, and lost, immortally. 
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