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European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Fall, Church, World
Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

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Church, Share, States
Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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