Responding to Are We At Church or the Airport?, a friend astutely wrote,  In Germany, after WWII, many felt that, if following the dictates of the Third Reich were the kind of moral advice they could expect from their church, they would be better off on their own, and thus were lost from the congregations.  But the churches didn’t worry–no separation of church and state means that the state acts as the tax collector, so they didn’t lose any money, just the bothersome human beings.  (It amazes me that people in the USA don’t seem to understand what “the separation … Continue reading Another Lesson from Nazi Germany