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Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

Pope Benedict XVI
Wish, Trying, Too Much
Pope Benedict XVI (2004). “Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions”, p.116, Ignatius Press
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.