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And what has / does / will prevent the Church from working mightily to influence or coerce said will?
It's own self?
Napoleon (to a Cardinal): "Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?”
The Cardinal: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”
A thing being True or false is not contingent on yours or my belief in it.
Truth and True Religion exists, and it is our responsibility to seek it out.
Sounds like true religion is an assertion that can never be proven. Why aren't Judaism, Lutheran, Mormon, Baptism or Islam not true? Their followers believe that they are.
Setting up a country based on one religion is the Truth and the one true religion sounds like there would be many oppressed people, most of the population in fact. If you do not like a secular society and find itlacks your religious freedom how do you think your proposal would be not much more severe on that?
It's your belief; that doesn't make it "THE" truth.
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