Religion and Statism

Tom DiLorenzo is certainly right to be frustrated by the completely hopeless World Council of Churches and by mainline Christianity in general. It’s a casualty of the general Corruption of Everything that it’s our misfortune to be living through.

Now this isn’t quite the point, and Tom DiLorenzo would be the last to deny this, but the atheists who have foisted statism and leftist social ideologies on us aren’t much better. It’s pretty sad when Christianity in much of its institutional existence has grown so degenerate that we have to say that at least we’re not as bad as leftist atheists. My point is simply that it isn’t necessarily something about religion per se that makes it susceptible to statism, since much 20th-century statism was inspired by intellectuals either with no religious background at all or who professed allegiance only to an unrecognizably perverted form of Christianity.

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11:30 am on December 3, 2003