Romantic Reveries
The Revolt Against Reason in Christianity, Government, and Human Nature
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Now, of all the things Luther, or anyone else might certify as a transient and false god, there is a single overarching one: government, the most pervasive institution in modern societies. The future French premier Georges Clemenceau stated this truth vividly in 1884: "Yes! We have guillotined the King, long live the State-King! We have dethroned the pope, long live the State-Pope!
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The time has come for Christianity to make a complete break with the burden of Christendom. It was the malfeasance of the latter that gave us secular society and opened the way for government to become the god of modernity. It’s also time for humanity to become less optimistic about its own potential for perfect solutions to everything.
About the Author
Mr. Moquin’s first job for Encyclopaedia Britannica was as associate editor of the 20-volume set, Annals of America. After this he compiled and edited the materials to be included in the 10-volume Makers of America, documenting immigration and ethnicity in the United States from the 16th to the late 20th century. He then compiled and edited the materials for four one-volume books published by Praeger Publishers in New York. These were Documentary History of Mexican Americans, Great Documents in American Indian History (before they were called Native Americans), Documentary History of Italian Americans, and The American Way of Crime. In retirement he found another career as an indexer of textbooks in economics.