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(3) Baptists believe in their hearts in a free church in a free state. Christ plainly taught that the state and the church each had its own realm when he said "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesarīs; and unto God the things which are Godīs" (Matthew 22:21). Baptists are vigoriously opposed to union of state and church and believe that a state controlled church is a wretched excuse for Christianity and a plain departure from Scripture. All of the Protestant Reformers fastened state state churches upon their followers! Today Americans enjoy separation of church and state because of the vigor and vigilance of Baptists in the early days of our national history
| I like. | Which part do you like? The lie about the "vigor and vigilance of Baptists in the early days of our national history"?? The American colonists were Congregationalists and Presbyterians. Who are these Baptists who shaped American government?? | Isaac Backus was one. Baptists became much more prominent after the First Great Awakening.
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Chris Poe
Mandeville, LA
"There are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it--the lunatic fringe in all reform movements." Theodore Roosevelt
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