“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.”

- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813

The importance of separation of church and state:
“The Old Testament–with its 600 or so Mosaic laws–is the inflexible
guide for the society DeMar and other Reconstructionists envision.
Government posts would be reserved for the righteous, as long as they
are male. There would be thousands of executions a year, with stoning a
preferred method because it would turn the deaths into “community
projects,” as movement theologian North has noted. Sinners in line for
the death penalty would include women who commit adultery or lie about
their virginity, blasphemers, witches, children who strike their
parents, and gay men (lesbians, however, would be spared because no
specific reference to them can be found in the Books of Moses). DeMar
told me that among Reconstructionists he is considered something of a
liberal, because he’d execute gays only if they were caught indulging
in sodomy. “I’m happy to just drive them back into the closet,” he said.”

“Most of the world’s religions have a fairly bloody history when they’ve
been able to put the power of government behind their pulpits. Maybe
it’s been extremely vigorous conversion efforts (”join or die!”) or
punishment of heretics (often those advancing scientific views of the
world), or simply scapegoating a different sect for political purposes.
It has tended to end badly.”
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