RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
I am going to be dramatic for a second:
"In a society where the Christian church is strongly representative and republican (not the party), tyranny in the state is impossible. When King Charles Stuart I declared a war to extend his tyranny over church and state, that war was called 'the Episcopal War.' Likewise when the colonies of North America fought to preserve a Christian moral order against King George III, that war was called 'The Presbyterian Rebellion.' They knew what representative government was in church and state. They were willing to die for it. They knew that without representative government in church and state, you can't have true freedom.
And so the state of Virginia bears this heritage in its state motto, "Sic Semper Tyrannus!"
Joe Morecraft III
"In a society where the Christian church is strongly representative and republican (not the party), tyranny in the state is impossible. When King Charles Stuart I declared a war to extend his tyranny over church and state, that war was called 'the Episcopal War.' Likewise when the colonies of North America fought to preserve a Christian moral order against King George III, that war was called 'The Presbyterian Rebellion.' They knew what representative government was in church and state. They were willing to die for it. They knew that without representative government in church and state, you can't have true freedom.
And so the state of Virginia bears this heritage in its state motto, "Sic Semper Tyrannus!"
Joe Morecraft III